On Sunday 13 April 2003 10:16 am, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
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
(2) Data integrity and compatibility with existing tools designed for ext2 : ext3
(3) Video streaming server and systems with very large files: XFS.
I myself use ext3 for all partitions. YMMV
Charles
One advantage of XFS is that it comes with an extensive set of additional 'tools' such as a program that will expand an XFS fs dynamically.
From another list:
One thing people seem to forget is the fact that XFS has a *lot* of user space tools that ext3, reiser, jfs and others don't, such as: xfs_growfs which will resize a partition on the fly xfs_admin for labeling and renaming xfs_check for error filesystem and inode correction xfs_freeze to freeze a filesystem for snapshots xfs_fsr to reallocate or defragment a filesystem xfs_bmap to print block mapping for an XFS filesystem xfs_db to debug an XFS filesystem xfs_logprint to print the log of an XFS filesystem xfsdump to back up a filesystem xfsrestore to restore a filesystem None of the other journalling filesystems are close to being as "full-featured" and rely on external programs to perform these functions. I prefer tools native to the filesystem rather than the os or third party. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/13/03 10:34 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "What's a thousand dollars? mere chicken feed. A `poultry' matter." - Groucho Marx