Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

["Nicholas Parsons" <napt256@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi List,

Thank you for your help Charles.

> 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

>>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/

I will definitely check out these articles!

>>Basically, it boils down to:

>>(1) Speed and saving of disk space when you have lots of small files: ReiserFS

>>(2) Data integrity and compatibility with existing tools designed >>for ext2 : 
>>ext3

So, is ext3/ext2 the standard file system for GNU/linux?  
If so, why spend so much time developing other kinds of 
filesystems like Reiser FS, XFS, JFS?  A file system is 
critical to any operating system and I think it would be 
much better if everyone could just focus their efforts on 
improving one file system.  This is the case with MS Windows.
They started out with FAT, then moved on to FAT32 and finally 
are using NTFS.  The same goes for other stuff in the open 
source community like KDE and Gnome for example.  This 
"multiplicity" approach hurts linux as a whole.  Linux software 
as a whole should not compete against other linux software but 
should compete against other OS's software.

>>(3) Video streaming server and systems with very large files: XFS.



>>I myself use ext3 for all partitions. YMMV

Thats cool.  So I guess you haven't had any problems with it, eh?

Thanks again for the info,
~~Nick





 

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