From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Good, recent FS comparison?
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:17:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509162258.37730.a1426z@gawab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432A37BF.7060305@dtbb.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 20:11 Good, recent FS comparison? Ewan Grantham
2005-09-16 3:10 ` Tyler
2005-09-16 3:44 ` Jon Lewis
2005-09-16 7:35 ` Tyler
2005-09-16 21:17 ` Al Boldi [this message]
2005-09-18 9:15 ` Tyler
2005-09-18 11:29 ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2005-09-18 12:32 ` Al Boldi
2005-09-18 13:27 ` assembly aborted, superblock is missing. (need help!) JaniD++
2005-09-19 22:27 ` Mike Tran
2005-09-18 16:34 ` Good, recent FS comparison? Matt Stegman
2005-09-20 21:00 ` George N. White III
2005-12-27 23:33 ` James Northrup
2005-12-28 1:45 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-12-28 2:02 ` James Northrup
2005-09-21 15:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-09-21 21:34 ` Al Boldi
2005-09-22 12:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-09-22 13:55 ` Al Boldi
2005-09-18 17:54 ` Jonathan Schmidt
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