Re: Good, recent FS comparison?

[Tyler <pml@dtbb.net>]

Al Boldi wrote:

>Tyler wrote:
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>>Ewan Grantham wrote:
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>>>I've just setup a nice, 6-disk, USB-2 300 Gig/disk array, and was
>>>prepared to follow my normal pattern of installing ext3 as the
>>>filesystem. However, I saw the interview with Hans Reiser about
>>>ReiserFS4, and am now wondering if reiser has really improved enough
>>>to use it, or if ext3 is still the way to go?
>>>      
>>>
>>You'd be best off trying some tests of your own, using files of the size
>>and quantity you expect to use on a regular basis.  I would consider
>>ext3, xfs, and reiser3/4... and run some tests with them.  We've had
>>really good luck using XFS on large raids, I personally had a bad
>>experience with reiserfs 3, it lost data on a USB based drive, as if it
>>were never even there, even after trying the recovery tools.
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>Don't touch anything that doesn't do ordered-mode journaling, especially if 
>you use raid, unless your data-consistency requirements don't require this.
>
>XFS is best, but does not support ordered-mode.
>reiser4 is still new.
>ext3 is rock-solid!
>
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>Al
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Al... you've given us some "do's" .. can you give us some "why's" to go 
along with them? :)  I would appreciate a run-down with some more 
specific info as to what/why.

Thanks,
Tyler.


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