Recommended filesystem-setup (using kernel 2.6)

Cyrus XIII · 03-13-2004, 09:23 AM

Hi,
I've been reading discussions about pros&cons of the various journalised filesystems for a while now and since I'm planning to buy a new harddrive around next week, I'd like to hear some current opinions on reiserfs, ext3 and probably xfs, especially how they are doing on kernel 2.6-systems and which fs would probably the best "fast but still secure"-decision for / (root), /home and the partitons where I keep my, music, movies and so on...

thx

trickykid · 03-13-2004, 10:32 AM

I personally use ext3 on 2.6.x and haven't seen any problems. Not sure what else your looking for, you should read up on each filesystem to see if it has something to offer for your own system.
I've never used xfs myself. reiserfs I've seen more questions regarding and troubles as I've never really much liked it for some reason. Maybe its cause it doesn't like quotas and gives problems to users who enable quotas on their filesystems, etc which usually requires a patch of some sort to work out.

fudoki · 03-13-2004, 01:35 PM

I am running Mandrake 2.4.xx on my server and on my laptop, using ReiserFS on both for all partitions but /boot, /swap (of course),and a FAT32 partition on both machines.

I'm pleased, it's fast, and stable.

I know you asked about 2.6..... not sure what the difference would be, but I would not hesitate to use ReiserFS in any setting now.

Fudoki

synaptical · 03-13-2004, 01:44 PM

i obviously don't have as much experience as trickykid, but i've really liked reiserfs and have had good luck with it. it fscks or whatever at boot really fast, and it seesm really fast in general. the only thing is quotas, as tk also mentioned. quota wasn't working on on my web server, and i couldn't figure out why. it turns out it was from the reiserfs, so i had to change it to ext3.

so if you want to use quota, go with ext3.

Cyrus XIII · 03-13-2004, 05:18 PM

Thx for all the answers so far.

Here's something I found on this page:

Quote:

If your application primarily uses lots of smaller files, ReiserFS v3 is the way to go. If your application uses more medium to larger files, and not a whole lot of them, XFS would most likely be a wise choice.

Since I my system is a single user-machine and I won't mess with FTP anytime soon, I guess ReiserFS would be a good choice, even with its quota-troubles. Well, at least for root and home, I'm still not sure about the music/movies/whatever-partition (let's just call it "stuff"). The quote recommends XFS for "medium to larger files" but what sizes does that imply, several MB and on, or 1GB+ ?