Matthew Rosewarne on 19 Feb 2007 00:04:43 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] The filesystem question...


On Sunday 18 February 2007 15:06, Stephen Brown wrote:
> For your uses on a laptop, unless you are doing something out of the
> ordinary like
>  - over a few hundred files per directory
>  - massive churn in the filesystem (lots of files added and deleted)
>  - video (mythtv)
>  - or tens of thousands of files per filesystem
> I would stick with the simple ext3. It is not as fast as jfs or xfs, but
> pretty much any rescue disk you pick up will be able to access the drive
> and for a laptop you are not talking about extreme performance storage
> anyway.

Well, the two concerns with a laptop are:
	it's not as fast as a workstation, so performance should not be thrown away
	The more you spin the disk & use the CPU, the shorter the battery life

From what I've seen & heard, I think I'll go with JFS on the laptop, since it 
has almost the speed of XFS, but must less CPU usage.

For my servers & workstations, I think XFS is probably a good choice, but ext3 
is going to be the only option on my backup server.  Hopefully that 
combination can provide satisfactory performance and reliability.

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