[plug] Which File-System

[Shannon Carver]

No need for any flaming here I don't think, as always people will always 
have their favourites, and each FS has its pros and cons.  I don't 
really know the in's and out's of each filesystem, but from a few 
benchmarks I've seen, as well as word of mouth and other's opinions and 
I think you've just got to choose a filesystem that fits the required 
purpose.

I've heard XFS is the fastest for large files, reiser (I'm using v4) now 
the standard for normal tasks (don't quote me on that) and ext3 is great 
for compatibility, stability, recovery etc.

 From personal experience, if your not worried about recovering last 
year if something goes wrong (we've all got backups right??!), ReiserFS 
is probably best for normal tasks.

Shannon

Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
> I ran out of drive-space last night, so today I bought a 300GB drive.
> This will be used primarily as my media drive, in my media server :)
> (so lots of reads, not so much writing)
>
> Can anyone recommend a good file-system for this purpose? I normally
> use reiser3, I've dabbled in reiser4, but don't really want to use it
> for this. Some people were suggesting XFS, but I don't have any
> experience with it.
>
> ext3 has annoyed me in the past, so I want to stay away from that if 
> possible.
>
> <war type='flame'>
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au