[Chester LUG] Filesystems

[Dan]

I've always used ext3 and had no problems with it but not out of any
great knowledge, more to do with laziness, it's usually the default. I'm
no expert on filesystems at all but people are always telling me I
should be using xfs instead of ext3. I know a few people who even set it
up on their desktops, I believe you need a separate /boot partition
formatted as ext3 to get it working right and your main data partitions
are then xfs. I have no idea what the real advantage of it is though
sorry, not sure if I'm just adding to the confusion there :D Might be
worth reading up on it though. Real storage geeks always rave about zfs
from Solaris but I'm not sure if you can use it with Linux yet. It'll
get ported at some point I'm sure.

Good luck with the new system :)


On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:57 +0000, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's been a while since I've read up on the particulars on the many
> filesystems out there.  So I was wondering if anyone can anyone
> recommend the best filesystem for running 1TB and above filesystems?
> It's on an Ubuntu server and the disk(s) will be primarily for
> fileserving and VM hosting (so will most probably be large files).
> Have you had experiences good or bad with particular filesystems?
> 
> Les
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