[plug] Which File-System

[Adam Chidlow]

XFS is an awesome filesystem for media. My /home partition is always a XFS
partition, and it performs the same if not better even with small files, and
_exteremely_ well with media files. It's also even faster than ReiserFS at
formatting. Iv'e installed nine different linux distributions in 3 months*
and so far the only one that hasnt supported XFS at install time is
Slackware, and even then it was quite happy to deal with it out of the box
after install. Other than that I've had absoloutely no fuss or complaints
with XFS.

*(I think i've finally settled on Arch Linux, in my opionin its a really
good mix of the simplicity and non interfering policy of slackware, the
awesome customisability of Gentoo, and a package management system on par
with debian's apt-get system for binaries, and twice as good for source :) )

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:41:29 +0800
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> 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'>
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