Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1986 mails)

["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 27 November 08, Anders Norrbring wrote:
>
> > I know.. This has been chewed in articles over and over.. But what
> are your
> > personal, subjective, feelings about file systems?
> >
> > I want to run something that is fast for use as a system partition,
> pretty
> > "tolerant" to crashes from disasters like power outages etc.
> >
> > The system partition will reside on a Adaptec RAID-5.
> >
> > I'm currently looking at ext3, ReiserFS and XFS. ReiserFS has always
> served
> > me good, but as you all know, support and development is going
> downhill.
> > Ext3 hasn't made itself famous for being fast, and XFS is still a
> "gray
> > matter" in my world..
>
>   ReiserFS has *always* saved my bacon. The few power outages that have
> actually hit me, I had absolutely no problems rebooting my system and
> everything being just fine. I've used ReiserFS on my linux system since
> '00
> and whether development is there or not, so long as ReiserFS is still
> there
> for me to use, it'll be used.


I agree, it's been good to me too, but what is a bit annoying is the long 
recovery time after a trashing.. Not that it happens often, but when it does, a 
4-5TB volume takes forever (or at least a couple of hours) to recover.

Anyway, after what I've read in this thread so far, I'll give JFS a "hard time" 
to see if I can come up with some conclusions of my own.. :-)

Anders.


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