Re: Good, recent FS comparison?

["Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" <raziebe@gmail.com>]

what is ordered mode that xfs doesn't support ?

On 9/18/05, Tyler <pml@dtbb.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
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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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Raz