I gotta put my vote in for ext3. While it is slower than the other fs's: - It's robust. I've researched this & it seems you can bash ext3/2 pretty hard & still recover data. I saw too many stories of lost data on the other fs's for my liking.
- It's fully supported. ACL, xattr, quota, LVM snapshots, shrink, grow, mount unjournaled, etc. xfs is a port from IRIX, jfs seems to have only a partial feature set, reiserfs seems to be made for one thing - a sh*tload of small files. - It's widely supported. It's the standard fs for Linux. As with just about anything, fast hardware, plenty of RAM & proper tuning will get the most out of your system. Why not setup various tests for yourself - we've used iometer ( www.iometer.org ) recently. My little hodge-podge of hardware made out fairly well against the "enterprise" systems here. Just my 2 cents serving ~ 2TB of ext3 on LVM on sw raid over NFS & Samba. Disclaimer: I could be very wrong about the current status of things outside my little world. ----------------------------------------------------- toby bluhm philips medical systems, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323 Sean W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/2005 03:26 AM To [email protected] cc Subject [Samba] Re: what's the best filesystem Classification Actually, I am setting up an Ubuntu 5.04 box tomorrow as a Samba server (right after I figure out how to disable the raid controller). Do you suggest xfs? I've been reading this thread and people seem positive on it, but are there negatives as well? Sean James Peach wrote: > On 10/6/05, Eric A. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 10/4/2005 7:17 PM, mourik jan c heupink wrote: >> >> >>>I like xfs, specially with quota. (and using acl's here as well) >>> >>>with xfs you never have to run the check_quota (or whatever the command >>>is...) This makes a rebooting after a crash *much* faster. >> >>that was one of the things I liked about, and replaying the journal was >>nice too. >> >>one of the problems I had a couple of years back was that it wasn't >>bootable (had to boot a mini-kernel off a fat partition, then load the xfs >>modules). they've fixed that buy now I assume. > > > That might depend on yr distro. I've used XFS root partitions on > Ubuntu 5.04, SLES9 and OpenSUSE without any problems. > > -- > James Peach | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
