Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Hi List,
I recently pre-ordered a copy of SuSE 8.2 Professional CD/DVD set from the suse web site. I read the specs on SuSE 8.2 off the web site and saw that SuSE now lets you chose another filesystem type; called XFS. I currently use Red Hat 7.3 at home and use ext2 for /boot partition and ext3 for /, /usr, /home partitions on my first hard drive (hda).
I know the main difference between ext2 and ext3 is that ext3 has journaling capability while ext2 does not. Red Hat doesn't give you a choice at installation using its anaconda program of formating a drive with anything other then ext2, ext3 or swap. When recompiling the 2.4.x kernel I noticed that there is a option to load the reiserfs driver into the kernel at boot time.
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? There are quite a few from what I gather like ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, Reiser FS.
I just use the pc at home as a workstation, not a server.
Thanks in advance, ~~Nick
I beleive the only one that actually journals data is ext3. It's the only one that I've NEVER lost a file with. Reiser: Edit (vi) a file. While editing it, turn your pc off. Your file is trashed. EXT2: Do the same. It may or may not recover. Usually does... XFS: " " JFS: I haven't tried it. EXT3: You will never loose a file This may or may not be important to you. Myself, I have to do things with my boxes that cause crashes/hangs. But as the other posts point out, different uses of your box probably should be considered. Myself, I'm convinced EXT3 is for me no matter what my box is doing... Regards Mark