Some will argue that ReiserFS is faster etc... and I would agree. This
would be true even when journaling is used for both metadata and file data
consistency.
In the end, any improvement or degradation in speed as a result of
journaling, will come from the type of journaling done. Typically, it is
faster to journal only metadata, as opposed to both metadata and file data.
Unfortunately, increases in speed often dictate that your giving something
up on the data integrity side.
For Ext3, you should get the most performance from the data=writeback mode.
ReiserFS uses this equivalent as the default mode I believe, while Ext3 uses
data=ordered as the default.
HTH,
-David
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:40 AM
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Subject: journaling file systems
Guys,
I know this issue has been discussed a long time ago, but maybe things have
change, so I am going to ask again.
What is the best journaling file system out there? XFS, ReiserFS, or ext3?
What's their highlights?
I have been very happy with ext3 because of it's simplicity and that it is
supported in standard kernels.
Backward compatibility with ext2 is great. A friend at work insists on
using XFS for most of our servers.
If I want to build a server for thousands of small files (bellow 500k) and
I want speed, what file system do you recomend?
thanks,
Ezra Nugroho
Web/Database Application Specialist
Goshen College Information Technology Services
Phone: (574) 535-7706
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