File systems

[Jason Clinton]

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Keith Savasten wrote:
| Hi all.
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| I was wondering if anyone out there new of a god resource that
explained the
| differences in filesystems?

God can't help you now! Muhahahah! J/K

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| What filesystems are preferred?
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| I am running reiserfs for my root partition and ext3 for the user
partition.
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I don't have any links handy (search Slashdot), but as of kernel 2.4.18,
reiserfs is to be considered a production quality filesystem. It's
extremely efficient with small files (and there are lots of those in linux).

As of 2.4.19, XFS is still questionable due to a recent bug that caused
the file system to corrupt under power loss conditions. The Gentoo
people are recommeding you not use it until it's been tested further. (I
lost allot of personal data this way. *curses himself for being
adventureous*)

Ext3 isn't very innovative but it's tried and true and still performs
right up there with the best of them.

In terms of performance, for a desktop or server, ReiserFS wins hands
down. If you have a large database file, XFS seems to perform best.

If you have a chance, read some of the papers by Hans Reiser. He's a
genious. Reiser4 promises to change the way we think about files.

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