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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: Filesystem of choice?

I like XFS myself. Reiser v3 worked fine for quite a while, and ext3 works well too. I haven't tried JFS, and honestly, probably won't.

These days, I am not interested in nosebleed fast blow off your underpants speed. I would rather have something that I can have reasonable confidence in regarding data integrity, and fault tolerance (graceful failures). Fast is definately nice, considering those caveats.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Filesystem of choice?

Hey, I'm not interested in blinding speed either... I just don't like to wait five minutes for pacman to find one lousy package in its database.

mallow005

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Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 20

Re: Filesystem of choice?

That's funny, I'm using whatever came with a pentium II 350 and pacman returns results in under a minute. vanilla ext3, 64 megs of ram.

benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 383

Re: Filesystem of choice?

ext3 (plain) for home... it's stable and proven.
ext3 for /boot
jfs for /

Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

Posts: 243

Re: Filesystem of choice?

I use ext3 and it's very good i think;]

onearm

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From: Anywhere but here

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 359

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Re: Filesystem of choice?

ext3 for /home
reiserfs for Ubuntu
XFS for Arch

I tried ext2/3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs and I think that overall the best is and remains ext3. XFS is strangely very slow with pacman but for the rest is pretty fast.

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Echo

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: Filesystem of choice?

ext2 /boot
ext3 /home
ext3 /

I used to tailor partitions and use of partitions but the above is where I settled in.  Less thought required  and I haven't noticed any performance hit to speak of.

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,487

Re: Filesystem of choice?

I tried ext2, etxt3, reiser, xfs, jfs.

ext2 was slow, ext3 surprisingly too. reiser broke itself several times, and exhausted the cpu. xfs was very slow in writing a larger number of small files, but was very fast in handling larger files. jfs hat some bugs in former versions, but was allways fast and stable for me.

Since some years I run

jfs /boot
jfs /
jfs /home
jfs /home/shared

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palandir

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Registered: 2006-05-14

Posts: 73

Re: Filesystem of choice?

The only filesystems I've used are ext2, ext3 and reiser 3.6, the latter being the one I'm currently using for the most important partitions.

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Filesystem of choice?

recently converted ext3 user here. used reiser3 before.

now I use ext3 with all the lovely tweaks

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syd

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From: Auckland, NZ

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 155

Re: Filesystem of choice?

ext3
easyer to fix if somthing goes 'frequently' wrong . 

djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Filesystem of choice?

ext3
easyer to fix if somthing goes 'frequently' wrong . 

also ext3 has some nice tweaks that can really ramp up the performance.

Also ext2/3 can be read/written to in windows.

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Filesystem of choice?

Also ext2/3 can be read/written to in windows.

I've heard about this but never tried it. As of what version of windows?

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Filesystem of choice?

Also ext2/3 can be read/written to in windows.

I've heard about this but never tried it. As of what version of windows?

None.
It's not done natively, and the existing opensource proprietary R/W driver treats ext3 as ext2 (no metadata being stored).
It's functionality is just about as good as the new-generation ntfs driver for Linux: it's working, it's fast, but does have limitations.

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djpharoah

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 185

Re: Filesystem of choice?

Also ext2/3 can be read/written to in windows.

I've heard about this but never tried it. As of what version of windows?

I use explore2fs and use windows xp. I also use it on my server which has windows 2k.

It has saved my bacon in the past and is awesome for accessing files across the OSes.

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brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: Filesystem of choice?

how about ZFS ? has anyone tried this one already ?

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Filesystem of choice?

As of right now Linux doesn't support it at all. I'm betting development of Linux drivers and utils will start in a year or so though...