On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:52:23 -0500 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Setting up another Fileserver, and SAMBA server. I am interested in teh most
stable filesystem for this server. Reiser I have been told is not the best
choice, and I have had corruption problems with it. EXT3?, or EXT2, the old
standby.
Of all the filesystems you have access to, ext2 will be the BEST performer and the
most stable of them all. The only hitch with using it is the long wait for fsck on
large partitions. If you don't mind the wait, then this is probably your best choice.
If your server isn't running on a UPS, then using one of the journalling file systems
is probably a smart idea. XFS would be my choice, followed by ext3. Beware though...
no matter what you hear, concerning how good the performance is with a journaled fs,
there is definitely a performance hit in using them.
In particular I can cry like a baby about how slow nfs runs across ext3. It really is
that bad. ;')
I'm not a linux guru by any measure, but my experience would recommend the
following. Use ext2 on the server with a fully implemented UPS and run
samba for file sharing. While NFS has been around for a long time, it
comes no where's near samba in performance. On the other hand, samba can
be a nightmare to setup if you don't have prior experience, while nfs
is almost a breeze to setup.
Cheers.
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