[Gllug] Filesystems for Linux

[Tethys]

Huw Lynes writes:

>	Direct-IO if you really need the speed.

Yes, but most people don't. ResierFS made all sorts of claims about
how much faster they were than ext3, but in reality, they were
trying to fix a problem that didn't exist. Few people outside of
the video editing industry will need high performance filesystems.
The bottleneck is almost invariably elsewhere anyway, and ext3 is
good enough, and more importantly, stable, and I wouldn't recommend
anything else for a general purpose box.

For specialist uses that genuinely need more than ext3 provides,
I'd look at XFS and JFS, but avoid ReiserFS (for reasons I've given
elsewhere).

Tet


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