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View Poll Results: What filesystem do you use?
ext2 16 7.31%
ext3 67 30.59%
reiserfs 136 62.10%
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Old 06-09-2004, 07:12 PM   #1
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Arrow 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?
 
Old 06-09-2004, 07:18 PM   #2
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You can get an overview of various filesystems here
I user reiserfs.
 
Old 06-09-2004, 07:21 PM   #3
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I've used reiserfs for some years now. It's journalled, fast and stable.
 
Old 06-09-2004, 07:48 PM   #4
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I use reiserfs because Pat and Bob said to.
 
Old 06-09-2004, 08:53 PM   #5
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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,
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Old 06-09-2004, 08:58 PM   #6
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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.

Reiser and Slack just seem to go together.
 
Old 06-09-2004, 09:08 PM   #7
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I use ReiserFS, though I use XFS on mass storage drives.
 
Old 06-09-2004, 09:24 PM   #8
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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
 
Old 06-09-2004, 09:35 PM   #9
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Quote:
Originally posted by Schrambo
Too bad that the Symantec Nortons Ghost only supports ext2 and ext3 so far :(
So? :)

Use dd or partimage ;P


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Old 06-10-2004, 12:34 PM   #10
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I use XFS.
 
Old 06-10-2004, 12:37 PM   #11
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I also use ReiserFS. Seems good to me.
 
Old 06-10-2004, 01:20 PM   #12
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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.
 
Old 06-10-2004, 01:21 PM   #13
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nevermind, I answered my own question. For those of you interested... check this link..

http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html
 
Old 06-10-2004, 07:05 PM   #14
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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
 
Old 06-10-2004, 08:39 PM   #15
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Quote:
Originally posted by gargamel
Small partitions like /boot: ext3.

Don't use ext3 for large partitions!!!
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 ;)


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