[plug] File System Types ?

[Shannon Carver]

I choose ReiserFS, for a few reasons:
Speed
As the other poster said, I've found it great over my RAID arrays
I've always found it reliable
Every distribution I've installed in the past few years bar Debian has
defaulted to ReiserFS anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Stuart Midgley
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:06 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au; ranime at westnet.com.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] File System Types ?
> 
> I like ReiserFS.  In my own testing is performs far better then EXT3
> (especially on top of software and hardware raid devices).
> 
> I also like the fact that it has dynamic inode allocation, ext3 has
> static, and it is trivial to resize the filesystem... I've also had
> some serious crashes and always managed to recover my ReiserFS...
> 
> Stu.
> 
> 
> On 11/04/2006, at 10:37, Ranime wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I would be interested to hear the pros and cons regarding
> > Journalised Ext3  and Journalised ReiserFS ?
> >
> > ie: Your preferences for a file system for a desktop client ?
> > and  why ....  Please.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Max.
> 
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