If you care about things like quotas or extended ACLs, my understanding is that ext3 is your best bet on that.
JSR/ On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:36 -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: > I'm switching to a new hard drive on one of my computers, and I'm curious > about which file system type is best for which sort of situation. When I > first played with Linux, it seemed like ext2 was the only common choice, > but now ext3 and reiserfs are pretty common, not to mention XFS and JFS. > In recent years I've just used reiserfs for everything, but I'm curious if > there are good reasons to use something different. I realize that which > FS to use depends on the requirements, so let me explain those a bit. > > All my machines are just for use by a few people, so downtime is not a big > concern; thus, the length of time it takes to check a file system not > cleanly unmounted is not an issue (within reason). As you might guess, I > don't know a whole lot about FSs, so something with reasonably well > developed tools in Linux would be preferable. Generally, I have 3 sorts > of partitions: > > / > > The root file system is generally 1-5 GB and generally has small to > moderate size files. I don't heavily customize my system, so reinstalling > the OS would not be the end of the world. As a result, preventing loss of > data is not the primary concern here. Probably the biggest concern is > speed. Efficient use of disk space is probably a secondary concern. > > > /home > > This will generally by 5-10 GB and contain files ranging from a few k to > 100 MBs or so. Since this is where most personal files are located, > obviously I'd like to avoid data corruption as much as possible, though > this should be backed up. Speed and efficient use of disk space are still > a concern, but probably secondary. > > > /storage > > This would be some large partition for storing all the my eMusic mp3s and > other media. It would be about 100 GB and contain files from 1-500 MB in > size. The integrity of the data and efficient use of disk space are the > most important factors here. Speed is probably less important. I was > especially wondering in this case if some FSs would perform poorly with a > partition this large. > > > Which FS is best suited to each task, or does it really just not make that > much difference? > > Nick
