On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Rick Friedman wrote:
> Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each
> partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just
> to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system.
>
> I would like to hear from others their opinions about differing filesystems
> such as: ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS, etc.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
what is the purpose of the FS comparison ...
depending on what you want, the other fs could be a different
"better choice" and vice versa
if you don't want to sit and twiddle your thumb for a day while
the system formats your 1TB disk space..
- you would use xfs, jfs, reiserfs
if you use athlon-2x00 series ( p3/p4 era ) cpu or earlier,
you would probably find out the hard way, not to use reiserfs-3.6.x
on linux-2.4 kernels ( latest version seems to be fine(better) )
if you use compact flash or usb-stick ( embedded linux ), you probably
want msdos for /boot and boot into ramdisk so that oyu can power off
anytime with no side effects
pull the plug 100 times at any random time
to simulate the end user powering off anytime
at a minimum, you always want embedded systems to boot
and give some kind of useful message like "help, call home
for me" vs a "blank screen"
for normal day-to-day use on 20GB/40GB disks .. ext3 might be good enough
for normal day-to-day use with 500GB of disk space.. you might want
xfs, jfs, reiserfs
if you want the fastest FS .. plan your partition tables
correctly and amt of memory needed to do the tasks
and in all cases, ext2 will be maybe 2x faster than the others
but you shouldn't hit reset or power off either
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always use the latest fs from the originating authors unless
you like to watch 1TB of data randomly disappear due to "old bugs"
more fs fun ..
http://Linux-Sec.net/FS
c ya
alvin
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