[Nottingham] [Talk] Thurs 02/07/09 What's in a Filesystem?

[James Gibbon]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:39:31 +0100
Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:

> xfs seems to do the trick for my HTPC stack (SoftRAID6, 3 dozen disks)
> - it's certainly fast enough to feed HD video through a pair of
> cat5's... as to system drives, it's Reiser3.6 all the way for me. It's
> quick, more or less stable, and as to yet, I've not had a single fatal
> bitflip (unlike my adventures in NTFS3/4/5 or v/FAT/16/32).
> 

I adopted ReiserFS as filesystem of choice in my current role,
handling large volumes of large files - thinking that a filesystem
given to us by a convicted murderer would likely have benefitted
from a ruthless, uncompromising approach to coding and design,
although the fact that he was caught possibly suggests issues with
attention to detail.

Unfortunately my experience has mostly turned me off ReiserFS. Too
much filesystem corruption and wierdness. For example, files that
give permission errors on attempting to delete as root have been a
common phenomenon. An fsck always fixes these problems admittedly,
but I've found XFS to be less hassle so far.

I always use ext2 for root partitions. It just feels nice and safe.

James