Journaling File Sstem Question

Journaling File Sstem Question

[Justin Piszcz]

Concerning JFS vs REISERFS vs XFS...

Which would one use for stability?

I realize XFS has been in use probably longer than the other two on SGI's, 
but in Linux it was only recently merged into the 2.4.xx kernel.

However, ReiserFS has been in the 2.4 kernel since the early 2.4.x series, 
JFS on the other hand is somewhere in the middle.

Between ReiserFS and XFS, which would you choose for stability?
Total benchmark time on all three filesystems are practically the same, so 
this is why I am having such a difficult time deciding which to use, 
ReiserFS or XFS.

Also, ext3 is out of the question as it is the worst performing filesystem 
(according to my benchmarks) in almost all aspects when compared with the 
other journaling file systems (XFS,JFS,ReiserFS).

Any comments?

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Re: Journaling File Sstem Question

[Steve Lord]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Concerning JFS vs REISERFS vs XFS...
> 
> Which would one use for stability?
> 
> I realize XFS has been in use probably longer than the other two on 
> SGI's, but in Linux it was only recently merged into the 2.4.xx kernel.
> 
> However, ReiserFS has been in the 2.4 kernel since the early 2.4.x 
> series, JFS on the other hand is somewhere in the middle.

XFS was out there for a couple of years before it was merged. XFS was
out there before reiserfs was merged, we first released against 2.3.43
from my memory.

There is a timeline here:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html

XFS went a lot of places before it went into the 2.4 kernel, it has been
in 2.6 for over a year for starters.

Steve

Re: Journaling File Sstem Question

[Hans Reiser]

Steve Lord wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>> Concerning JFS vs REISERFS vs XFS...
>>
>> Which would one use for stability?
>>
>> I realize XFS has been in use probably longer than the other two on 
>> SGI's, but in Linux it was only recently merged into the 2.4.xx kernel.
>>
>> However, ReiserFS has been in the 2.4 kernel since the early 2.4.x 
>> series, JFS on the other hand is somewhere in the middle.
>
>
> XFS was out there for a couple of years before it was merged. XFS was
> out there before reiserfs was merged, we first released against 2.3.43
> from my memory.

Sorry to quibble, but ReiserFS was out there from before ReiserFS was 
merged also...;-) and well before 2.3.43....

>
> There is a timeline here:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html
>
> XFS went a lot of places before it went into the 2.4 kernel, it has been
> in 2.6 for over a year for starters.

XFS is a great filesystem.