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See http://kernel.org/faq/#howdoesitwork
If what's good for Linus is good for Alex, then try XFS ;) Caveat : but you can't shrink it directly, see http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ and http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php [EDIT] And you can't install LILO on a (XFS) root partition, only on the MBR. That'd be a problem for me as I want to preserve my Windows' boot loader (yes, I do launch it every now and then) on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 (thus /dev/sda4 being my root Linux partition I have "boot = /dev/sda4" in lilo.conf and I made /dev/sda4 bootable). |
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If you choose JFS make sure to read: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JFS_Filesystem it mentions several important things. |
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Thanks, I'll try it out another time, then.
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BTW, in recent kernels, the default mount options of ext3 also changed to more dangerous values to improve performance. |
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However there were also cases that were tracked down to the ext3 code (more specifically, to the way data=ordered mode behaves). There were so many complaints that they ended up switching the default mount option to data=writeback in ext3 and ext4. This is the unsafe choice, even Torvalds was openly against the idea. There were reported cases of data loss, too. I think they did little improvements to reduce the risk. Some Ext4 developers even said "it's not a bug, it's a feature" and blamed on poorly written application codes for not doing necessary checks and assuming certain behaviour. Anyway, writeback is still considered the unsafe default. As I said above they were working on an intermediate solution but I haven't followed up on that. |
I've been happy with JFS. I use ext2 for my boot partition; ext3 or JFS for the remainder partitions. With Slackware I use JFS; with debian and CentOS I use ext3.
I had two crashes running Ubuntu on ext4 partitions. I was not able to do any recovery after the crashes. One of the machine would not even boot. See http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...t4-740467.html and https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubun...81/comments/45 about the 7th paragraph down where it talks about delayed allocation. -JJ |
I'm using ext4 with 'noatime,barrier=0,data=writeback,nobh,commit=100'. It's being solid until now, but my backups are synced every night ;]
The other machine is working for years with Reiser and abused really hard without problems. I'm just waiting my vacation to format one old spare rig and install Slack with JFS and satisfy an old desire to try this fs. |
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