From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tyler Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison? Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:15:16 -0700 Message-ID: <432D3024.3080302@dtbb.net> References: <6d5bedd8050915131148b8108a@mail.gmail.com> <432A37BF.7060305@dtbb.net> <200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux RAID Mailing List , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Return-path: Received: from mail.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.136.21]:15049 "EHLO smtp-01.primus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750730AbVIRJNX (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:13:23 -0400 To: Al Boldi In-Reply-To: <200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Al Boldi wrote: >Tyler wrote: > > >>Ewan Grantham wrote: >> >> >>>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. >> >> > >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! > >-- >Al > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > 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. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 9/16/2005