Re: How do I pick the best fs?

[Andreas Happe <andreashappe@gmx.net>]

In article <5.1.0.14.0.20030319234642.00b76038@mail.tumsan.fi>, urgrue wrote:
> well, ive been using reiser for over three years on over 200 always-on 
> production servers.

~10 "can't call them production servers, but servers used 24/7" + 5 toy
pcs... and I've got lots of problems with reiser... pure luck?

> while ive only tried ext3 on maybe 5 or less computers, twice its caused 
> problems (one may have been due to a faulty hard drive though)
> but, these are all anecdotes, and the plural of anecdote is not data.

true and I think that with all the low latency work akpm and others have
done in the past ext3 should be one of the stablest fs around (it may
not scale as good as any of the new journaled fs, but I don't think that
the OP will build an 8+way server :)). It also reflects my experience
gained on lkml, plus fs related newsgroups. You should also not forget
the years of usage that ext2 had. In that light the "oldest" journaling
filesystem for linux is not quite that old.

> admittedly though i dont know what version of reiserfs is in the 2.5 kernels.

the newest ;). no, i don't mean reiser v4.. which looks very
interessting if it gets stable enough.
 
> ive never had the misfortune to need to use it, but yes admittedly the 
> reiserfsck docs were filled with warnings about its unfinished/experimental 
> nature - at least last i checked, which was easily a year ago.

well, I've needed them a little bit faster.

> >lies, damn lies and statistics?
> i know, i dont place almost any value on benchmarks, especially 
> non-independent ones, but the poster was asking for them, so i obliged.

I think the known online linux magazines had more than enough tests, I
think IBM developer works had a good series on filesystems (okay, they
may not be _that_ independent (JFS), but they're are good start)..
 
Andreas
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