On April 13, 2003 09:22 am, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
So does anyone on this list have experience using the other file system types that SuSE offers out of the box? And if so, can you please elaborate which is the "best" to use?
Decide for youself after reading this series of articles on journaling FS for Linux:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs.html
with links at the bottom to the other parts. The link to part 7 on ext3 is located at:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/
Basically, it boils down to:
(1) Speed and saving of disk space when you have lots of small files: ReiserFS
In my benchmarks, XFS has almost the same performance, and in my experience, ReiserFS uses more RAM (if you use something like vmware, ReiserFS might be slower for that reason).
(2) Data integrity and compatibility with existing tools designed for ext2 : ext3
(3) Video streaming server and systems with very large files: XFS.
If you use quota, XFS should be the choice as it does not need the quotacheck, like ReiserFS and Ext3 do. Praise