Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Quinton Delpeche <quintond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am by no means an expert and I don't want to speak for SuSE, but I
think hey chose it because reiserfs has a proven track record on SuSE.

ext3 also isn't 100% stable from what I understand and therefore hasn't
proven itself so to speak.

I may be completely off the bus here so please don't 'flame' me.

Q

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 10:50, Simon Oliver wrote:
> I want to know which filesystem best suits certain applications.
> 
> I have searched the net and found some interesting articles on journalling
> filesystems such as ext3, reiserfs, xfs and jfs.
> 
> I notice that by default SuSE install creates reiserfs volumes for root
> filesystems.  Why did SuSE make this choice over ext3?
> 
> Here are some links:
>   http://aurora.zemris.fer.hr/filesystems/big.html
>   http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1212
>   http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642
>   http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154
> 
> For a summary from these BULMA articles see:
>   http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1154&nIdPage=8
> 
> The applications I have in mind are:
> - general purpose fileserver with up to 500GB disk space
> - mySQL database with large tables (up to 2GB), not too bothered about
> insert/update speeds but want the fastest reads possible.
> 
> I am running dual Xeon (2.2GHz) servers with 2GB RAM and hardware RAID5
> volumes.
> 
> I'm edging towards using XFS, especially since reading Keith Waters
> <kwlist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> message (Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:58:14 +0200) regarding
> locking problems with ReiserFS.  I need a stable platform for these
> applications.  Is XFS stable enough for real world use?
> 
> -- 
>   Simon Oliver
> 
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