Re: Filesystems

[Dan Sauer <dmsauer@xxxxxxx>]

I'm not going to weigh in on the Rieser/ext* war, except to say that 
from the discussion so far, it seems ext* is winning.  I personally run 
ext3 on 4 boxes with absolutely no problems.  Ext3 is nice since it is 
journaled, where ext2 is not.  I haven't had any problems with speed as 
far as ext3 is concerned either, of course it is somewhat faster on my 
SCSI drives then it is on my EIDE drives, but thats a given.  Also, 
since it is mainstream kernel (as noted elsewhere) it is useful that I 
don't have to deal with different filesystems on different hardware as 
it is supported on all the machines I run (Intel, AMD, HP PARISC). Since 
I've only had good experiences with ext3 I'm not really inclined to try 
anything else.

Anyway, thats my $0.02 worth.
-Dan


Anthony Oliver wrote:

> I currently run "ext2/ext3" on my home filesystem and was curious if
>
> anyone else runs different filesystems (i.e. RieserFS, XFS, JFS).
> I read that RieserFS can run 10-15times faster than ext for small 
> files. Is this true? Has anyone had any real life comparisions.
> Can anyone give me some environments/examples where one filesystem 
> would be preferred over the other, or like RieserFS for my /home 
> partition, ext3 for my media (mp3, video) partition.
>
>
> thanks,
> -Anthony