What filesystem do you use?

JFS for multimedia content (especially big video files).
ReiserFS for everything else.

Yves.

I installed my slack 10 with da ext3, but later, desided 2 "jump" 2 reiser( i read about a new version... http://www.namesys.com/). Now i found a way to change my linux FS without reinstalling slack, if my experiment will have success, i'll wright sm guide =)

cool beans

hope it goes well
let us know how you did it if it works

Look here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=231648

Hopefully sometime RedHat will understand.

I am Using LVM and SuSE in a Prod environment.
I can enlarge my filesystem while my Oracle database is running !!!
(lvexpand + resize_reiserfs)
And it woks !

You cannot do that with ext3.
You have to unmount the ext3 filesystem (Stop database) , enlarge it, then mount it again.
I cannot to that in ther middle of the day

Until ext3 can do that, do even think to go ext3.

P.S. Unless you are willing to get up at 3am, to stop production machine to enlarge the ext3 filesystem.

anybody want to tell me why a directory full of many files totalling about 80MB can easily take up a gigabyte of actual disk space?

I've only really payed attention to this on reiserfs... which my server is running, my work box is ext3

You must have a couple of thousand file my friend.
Directory entrie must take more space than the actual file.

In Fedora Core 3, we can now increase a ext3 filesystem on line WITHOUT umounting it.

Hopefully Red Hat will include it in Red Hat Enterprise 4.0

# mount -t ext3 /dev/rootvg/test /test

# df -k /test
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvg-test
63461 5403 54782 9% /test

# lvextend -L+64M /dev/rootvg/test
Extending logical volume test to 128.00 MB
Logical volume test successfully resized

# ext2online /dev/rootvg/test
ext2online v1.1.18 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b

# df -k /test
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvg-test
126931 5658 114725 5% /test
#


Thank You !

Has anyone tried ReiserFS v4? I'm still using 3.6

Yes, as I mentioned early on in this thread, I tried it. I like it enough that I still have it. It seems to be a bit snappier with every day workstation performance and also with things like indexing. Updatedb goes a fair amount quicker on the new filesystem. The only comparison that I really have is Reiser v3.6, as that's what I've been using for the past 2 years prior to switching over to v4.

Its a bit tricky to get installed, though, as you can't simply upgrade to it, which means you have to create it from a kernel with the patch in it (as in another linux system, basically). I made a small partition and installed with the "mm" kernel and a base system. Then, I installed from there and chrooted into the new system and built it from the bottom up this time. But, you can follow the "Hard Disk Upgrade Mini-howto" at TLDP and copy your existing system to the new filesystem as well (which is what I have done previously).

Hope this brings more to the table, so to speak.

To install Fedora Code using Reiserfs, at the boot prompt type :
boot: linux reiserfs

The resiserfs option will appears in the filesystem drop down list.
So you will have ext2 ext3 and Reiserfs.

I did not tried it with Red Hat Enterprise yet, I will let you know when I have the answer.

To install Fedora Code using Reiserfs, at the boot prompt type :
boot: linux reiserfs

The resiserfs option will appears in the filesystem drop down list.
So you will have ext2 ext3 and Reiserfs.

I did not tried it with Red Hat Enterprise yet, I will let you know when I have the answer.

I have tried reiserfs, but have had file corruption on 2 different pcs w/it.
Both of these happened under Suse.
When I switched last year to Slackware, I started using ext3 & it's been great.
I can't tell any speed difference, but then im not using it in a production enviroment.
Other than a firewall & a small web server at my work, I'm a desktop user.

XFS where I can use it, I think is very comprable to reiserFS and still only in it's incancy, it'll be blowing the socks off of ReiserFS in a few years or so... not that file system development is really that exciting

I use reiser with my system ('/' and '/home') partitions and ext3 with my data files (old/legacy backup partition)