Re: [PLUG] Which file system is best and why?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:46:32PM -0400, Trent Milliron wrote:
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> I'm pretty new to linux and wondered which file system you guys thik
> is best, and why. I know this may start a war, so to be fair back it
> up with facts. 

This has been discussed here before.  Here's a possibly helpful link
if you're ok with long links:

    http://www.google.com/custom?q=reiserfs+xfs&sa=Google+Search&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.phillylinux.org%3BAH%3Acenter%3BLH%3A210%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.phillylinux.org%2Fancient%2Fplug-letterhead.jpg%3BLW%3A630%3BAWFID%3A16edc3791eb454e1%3B&domains=lists.netisland.net%2Farchives%2Fplug%2F&sitesearch=lists.netisland.net%2Farchives%2Fplug%2F

Here's a post from me that links two potentially useful articles:

    http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2006-04/msg00148.html

The articles mentioned are these:

    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
    http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz
    
My memory provides the following summary, but I surely have forgotten
various assumptions I made in forming this opinion, so caveat lector:

    Reiser is very good but takes a long time to mount
    XFS is very good
    ext3 is good but there's some slightly obscure problem from which
        it has trouble recovering

I usually format disks with XFS.

HTH.

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 Jeff

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