[plug] Which File-System

[Arie Hol]

On 13 Jul 2006 at 18:41, 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.
> 

Have a look at the following list of links to IBM tutorials, you may find 
them of interest, the first 13 links are for a comprehensive series of 
tutorials on filesystems.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs2.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs3.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs4.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs5.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs6/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs9.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs10.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs11.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs12/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs13/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm2.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc12.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-seclnx3/

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sprace.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-lpic1104-i.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-lpic2203-i.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-linuxjfs-i.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fuse/index.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kernel2.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-proc.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-ltc-
filesystems/index.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-devfs.html

HTH

Regards Arie
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