[plug] Which File-System

[Stuart Midgley]

I tend to agree with Shannon, except to add that xfs/reiser and many of 
the fancier file systems have really poor delete performance.  When they 
delete they try to balance the tree again (which accelerate many other 
features of the fs), which can be time consuming.

Reiser4 was supposed to fix a lot of this, since I haven never used it I 
can't comment (I regularly use reiser3/xfs).

I personally tend to partition my disks a bit and put ext3 on everything 
except /home .  This means that if my system goes belly up, nearly any 
linux recovery tool will get me back to a bootable system and then I can 
use the reiser tools to get back my /home etc.  Having reiser for / has 
caught me out a few times (mainly due to the tools available on rescue 
cd's or live cd's).

Shannon Carver wrote:
> 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


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