About 5 months ago, XFS appeared to be the favorite, so when I crashed and burned the next time, I switched.
Haven't lost anything since and system has gone off due to power outages several times since. I never do a clean shut down simply because there seems to be no good reason to turn the computer off any more. BTW 8.2 is A1. Lee On Saturday 16 March 2002 05:51 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 05:18, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Hi there: > > Maybe It's an old question and man of you have seen similar questions. > > But I read the archive and couldn't make up my mind. I am a newbie to > > Linux and am willing to buy Mandrake Linux 8.2. But I don't know what > > file system to use. > > > > I am willing to install my Linux on my desktop computer. I don't want > > it to be secure. nor I want it to give me back up options, nor do I > > use RAID. I just want the fastest File system and I want it to be > > stable enough ( not that much stable, any thing more stable than FAT > > will suite me). > > If possible please also give me a list of File systems that are available > > with version 8.2 and please tell me which one best suit my needs. Linux > > Registered user # 266090 > > Aryan > > The purpose of the journaling filesystems is to preserve data > integrity. There is a processing overhead incurred with the journalling > process. Consequently, if you are not interested in data integrity or > recovery, ext2 will probably be your best choice. It has no data > logging facilities to slow it down. > > If you change your mind about the data integity priorities, XFS seems to > be the best thing going for speed vs data integrity. > > For those looking for total data safety, ext3 is the best way. I > understand that it is the only fs available that provides data > journaling mode. The other journaling fs's are metadata logging > systems. I run ext3 on an Athlon 964 mhz with raid 0, and it's been > plenty fast for me. > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Registered Linux user #223705 Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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