I have read some comments about quotas on file systems. I assume that means the ability to limit the allocation of a disk to a particular directory, or something like that. Can anyone elucidate? Peter On Saturday 20 April 2002 7:00 pm, you wrote:
On 20 Apr 2002, Mark Hollingsworth wrote:
What are the pro's and con's of the different linux filesystems? I have been using ReiserFS since it became available without issues but I wonder now that there are about 4 different file systems available, what their individual merits are.
I have used Reiserfs for a while now as well. My comparison is by no way complete, and I expect you will get quite a few responses to this. Nevertheless:
-ext3: backwards-compatible with ext2, and therefore you can use cool software like explore2fs to read/write data to that partition in MS Windows operating systems. I believe ext3 also allows ACLs (don't quote me on that).
-ext2: I see no reason to use ext2 in this day and age. The fsck's and mediocre performance (for my purposes) were enough to convince me to switch to reiserfs. Perhaps someone could point out a reason to use ext2...
-xfs (from SGI): very high performance for writing and reading. Mediocre deleting performance. Fairly new, so expect a few kinks. Has absurdly huge file and partition size restrictions (XFS was, after all, designed for IRIX), which, AFAIK, the Linux kernel does not even support.
-jfs: don't know enough to comment.
-reiserfs: stable, effective, good performance. Fast deletes. The plugin architecture from reiser4 will probably be astounding.
Everyone: please feel free to comment/correct/edit my comments.