On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, ReymanX wrote:
Hi All,
Maybe it's not the first time someone asked about which FS is the best for server, but I really like to have an overview which one is better for server and for desktop. Is it reiserfs, ext3 or xfs ? Does it matter what FS I should install for server or for desktop ?
First, a warning: you might as well ask for what the best food is. You
are going to get as many opinions as eyebrows. Everybody's needs,
priorities, willingness to live with issues, and so on is different.
That said, I'd use ext3. In 9 years I haven't had data loss due to
filesystem bugs with the ext2 (and later ext3) family. Reiser does NOT
deal with bad blocks or other kinds of failure well. Ever single time
I've tried reiser I've had data loss. Last time I used it was a year or
two ago.
These days I've been playing with IBM's jfs quite a bit, although I
think ext3 with directory indexing (2.6) is the best combination of
reliability and good speed. I wouldn't touch xfs unless you had very
special needs.
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