From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spam Message-ID: <641831202.20031208172455@tnonline.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] EXT3 vs Reiserfs In-Reply-To: <3FD4A42E.3070609@stercomm.com> References: <3FD4A42E.3070609@stercomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Dec 8 10:25:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Chris Cox > Yanick Quirion wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Could you please tell what is the best filesystem for linux between ext3 and reiserfs? >> >> I know that ext3 can handle ACLs and not online fs extend, and >> reiserfs do not seems to support ACLs (I found some patches for >> kernel 2.4.21, but there are errors when I apply them to the kernel >> sources), but can be extend while it's online. >> >> I'm just asking for your personal opinion and knowledge with them. >> > If you are using SUSE, then use reiserfs. It has ACLs and is mostly patched. > If you are using RH, then use ext3. RH in the past has been known to have > a broken reiserfs (not known for keeping it patched). > In my performance benchmarks, I found reiserfs to be somewhere between jfs and ext3, where > ext3 was the fastest, but reiserfs doing exceptionally well on random file creates > and deletes. Thought ext3 beats reiserfs in many of our tests, it was not by > an overwhelming margin. We were very surprised by the lack of performance of JFS.. though > it did have the lowest CPU utilization of the 3. > We run SUSE primarily... therefore we use reiserfs (mostly with LVMs). > RH is sorta new to the LVM thing... so although we use ext3 on our RH systems, > most of them do not use LVM. We have over 7TB of data that uses LVM with > reiserfs... we're quite pleased with the performance and capability. > We love the ability to do resize_reiserfs while the filesystem is mounted. > Constantly amazes the "Unix" purists. Not to mention that the reiserfsck is one of the best fsck tools I have used. This needs to be in consideration to, I think. Having not tested JFS I will not reserve myself for that =)