[Gllug] Filesystems for Linux

[Xander D Harkness]

>
> 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.
I fully agree, I also think that for the possible marginal improvement the
time saved in simplicity by using a distro supported filesystem is not
worth it.
>
> 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)
I am another who has had difficulties with the recovery tools under
ReiserFS, I only lost a 13Gb tar.gz file of my windows installers and
applications that I really do not miss ;-)  I use ext3 for everything and
I have not had a problem.  I have to say though that I hold more data than
the processors can cope with so my bottlenecks are CPU rather than FS.

Kind regards
Xander

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