Aryan,
I asked this question a few days ago. Here is what
Civileme, (he _The_ Man in these parts) responded.
Your choices are Ext3, Reiser, JFS, and XFS.
Ext3 is dog slow, and good only for compatibility with
Ext2.
Reiser doesn't work well with PostScript, and doesn't
work well for for mailservers.
JFS takes twice as much storage space to perform its
journaling operations, and it must be defraged on
occassion (which you would set up as a cron job).
XFS, although slower in destroying files, is very
fast in all other operations. It works with everything.
To quote Civileme, XFS is the "the better choice."
As far as Ext2 goes, it's not even an option on any
machine that doesn't explicitly need it, IMHO. The benefit
of data recovery and integrity far, far outweighs the
whatever processing overhead is involved.
Miark
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:48:28 +0330, "Aryan Ameri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke
thusly:
> 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
>
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