[Gllug] Filesystems for Linux

[Mark Hazell]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Chris typed:

> 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.

Hi, this is my first post here :-)
I use ext3 on all my machines (laptops, desktops, servers), and they all
seem to recover from crashes/power failures etc pretty well with no
losses.

The only errors I've had with it were on my (software) RAID-1
fileserver, which has led to a pre-patch for 2.4.21, but has meant i've
switched back to ext2 for now till 2.4.21 is released, just to be safe.

I don't think there is a 'right' answer. I'm intrigued to try out Reiser
now that all the old scares are over, and also xfs with its ACL support.
Other than that I run no real speed critical machines, so the
tried-and-tested ext2/3 does perfectly fine for me.

Cheers,
Mark.

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