[Gllug] Filesystems for Linux

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:17, Huw Lynes wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:24:39 +0000 (GMT)
> Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >    Is there any agreement about the preferred filesystem for a
> > general-purpose Linux box (not intended to be dedicated for streaming
> > video)? The normal choice offered is ext2, ext3, or Reiser. The last I
> > heard, some time ago, was that there were more recovery tools for
> > ext2/3 problems, and that a small /boot partition may be best left as
> > ext2.
> > 
> 
> Ext3 is nice especially given that it comes in the default kernel of
> lots of distros. Also good that you can upgrade ext2 filesysems to it.
> 
> However if you want extra functionality I can heartily recommend XFS.
> 	Access control lists,
> 	Direct-IO if you really need the speed.
> 	All sorts of fun with inode dumps.
> 
> It can be a bit of a pig to patch kernels to get it to work. Plus I
> think the only distros you can get which install with XFS are SGI's
> hacked-up versions of RedHat. 

And PLD distro, also in english - http://www.pld.org.pl/index.php.en

-- 
Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj at pointblue.com.pl>
K4 labs



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