Thanks everyone XFS will be my choice on this then.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Blenke" <icblenke@nks.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Knoppix Install
> Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> > savatage wrote:
> >
> >> Ok there is a XFS as well option should I perhaps try this, instead of
> >> the
> >> Ext3?
> >> Or stick with Ext3for now?
> >>
> >
> > I'm running Reiser in my current install, but I know full well that if I
> > have a hard drive blip I'll lose everything.
>
> Not neccesarily true. I've been running my little Vaio laptop with
> Reiserfs (on an older kernel) through 4 harddrive upgrades now (well
> over a year). When I first installed it, I used LVM, so I have used
> LVM's ability to grow volumes to expand to fill ever-increasing disks.
>
> Reiserfs has worked well on that machine... so far. I do, however, make
> regular backups of that machine should something bad happen to it, as
> reiserfs cannot be painlessly repaired when the journal fails and the
> filesystem is corrupted.
>
> > EXT3's main advantage is that you can convert an existing EXT2 partition
> > to it without data loss.
>
> I'm not happy with EXT3's journalling, even in journal=data mode (the
> default is journalled "ordered" log writes not journaled data writes).
>
> > Reiser is supposedly the fastest jfs, but on a home/office machine with
> > a typical hard drive, I doubt that the speed difference will be
noticeable.
>
> I'll contest that. XFS has the same b-tree directory traversal
> structure, so those benefits simply aren't entirely in Reiser's favor
> anymore. Honestly, my XFS filesystems seem to clobber my Reiserfs
> filesystems on large files, and match its speeds on smaller files and
> large directory trees.
>
> > I have not tried XFS but have heard that it's rock-solid. Does it have a
> > fsck or fix option of some sort?
>
> Absolutely. Arguably the best. Far better than EXT2/3's e2fsck, IMHO.
>
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