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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org