From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Milan P. Stanic" Subject: Re: How do I pick the best fs? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:08:33 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030320150833.GA6699@rns-nis.co.yu> 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> <1048160854.23760.21.camel@Zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1048160854.23760.21.camel@Zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:47:34AM +0000, Paul Furness wrote: > Hmm, I can see I've opened a sacred cow... ;) We learnt to live with it ;) > 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. ext3 driver have Hash Tree Directory indexing in kernel 2.5 which greatly improves performances. I'm not sure but I think that it is (or will be soon) backported to 2.4. So we will have ext2 compatibility, speed, journaling and stability in the *native* Linux FS, I hope. :) Milan