What filesystem do you use?
 

I use reiserfs because i heard its the fastest, but i don't know much about the others...

can anyone give me a short explanation in the advantages of using one filesystem over another one?

You can get an overview of various filesystems here
I user reiserfs.

I've used reiserfs for some years now. It's journalled, fast and stable.

I use reiserfs because Pat and Bob said to.

I've been using Reiser for years without any data-loss, on
a wide range of hardware, through several distro's.

It's fast, stable. Nuff said ;)


Cheers,
Tink

Reiser it is!

My /home partition was ext3 for quite a while since it had too much stuff to easily back-up, but now it's reiser across the board.:D

Reiser and Slack just seem to go together.

I use ReiserFS, though I use XFS on mass storage drives.

Yeah i'm also a reiserFS fanboy. when I was first trying out slackware I just used ext2, but the next slackware install I tried using reiserFS I noticed a huge performance boost from reiserFS.

reiserFS I recommend for anyone.
Too bad that the Symantec Nortons Ghost only supports ext2 and ext3 so far :(

So? :)

Use dd or partimage ;P


Cheers,
Tink

I use XFS.

I also use ReiserFS. Seems good to me.

Is there a major difference in speed between the ReiserFS and ext3 however? I've used ext3 fine for the past x years and never had any problems or issues.

nevermind, I answered my own question. For those of you interested... check this link..

http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html

General purpose: ReiserFS.
Very large files: XFS.
Small partitions like /boot: ext3.

Be careful with ext3: It caused my machine when I copied large files from an arbitrary partition to a 40GB ext3 partition. I tried ReiserFS on that partition, which was ok, but finally found XFS to be faster in writing large files. Again:

Don't use ext3 for large partitions!!!

On the other hand: A consulting firm (I don't remember their name) says it has changed their recommendation from ReiserFS to ext3 for Oracle databases, recently.

And the German Linux Magazin has published benchmarks showing IBM's JFS to be the least configurable, but still overall the fastest of the file systems available in Linux. It was the only file system in their test that showed top speed in every benchmark they did; JFS finished 1 or 2, which made it 1 overall. So you might give this one a try. (I have no experience with it, myself).

gargamel

Don't use ext3 for small partitions, either. :}

My /boot for instance is only 36MB, if I used
ext3 (with its 32MB journal) I'd have difficulty
to have more than one kernel with system.map
and all... ext2 for /boot ;)


Cheers,
Tink