From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Furness Subject: Re: How do I pick the best fs? Date: 20 Mar 2003 11:47:34 +0000 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1048160854.23760.21.camel@Zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> References: <1048007186.15881.35.camel@Zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030318201306.00b91c28@mail.tumsan.fi> <5.1.0.14.0.20030319234642.00b76038@mail.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hmm, I can see I've opened a sacred cow... ;) Thanks, everyone, for comments and experiences. Admittedly, I still haven't decided, but the small amount of testing / experience I have had suggests that reiserfs is definately faster than Ext3. Most of these tests have been on my workstation, and have been far from scientific. However, I can't say that I've lost data with either file system. I haven't needed to do much with fsck, though. Having said that, I don't expect I'll be needing to use fsck a lot; this is not because I have any illusions about "it won't happen to me" but more because I've designed the system from the start using new hardware with lots of redundancy in it (dual PSU on both the disk array and the server, dual CPU in the server, UPS powering the whole collection and all the disks are in a hardware RAID array). XFS is very much an unknown to me, and I'm not sure if I can use it fully anyway: I'm slightly constrained because I need to use Samba to share the file systems as well as NFS. I'm not yet clear on whether the acl feature of XFS will work with samba; if it won't, then the main reason for picking XFS over the others evaporates and the field is again level. In that case, reiserfs probably has a slight edge because I've actually used it in anger (on my workstation) for a good couple of months and it certainly seems quicker than Ext3. The jury is still out on this; I'd still welcome any thoughts anyone else wants to add. Thanks again, Paul. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Visual Information Lab Mitsubsihi Electric ITE BV Guildford, UK __________________________________________________________ | Fight Spam! Join EuroCAUCE: http://www.euro.cauce.org/ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~