I did some investigating of filesystems a while ago, so I may be out
of date on this, but I got a better gut-feeling about XFS, and I
can't say anything bad about JFS. It's just one of those things.
Russell
On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Mike Branda wrote:
> Ian C. Blenke wrote:
>> Eben King wrote:
>>>> Seeing as how I need as much of that drive as possible, I went
>>>> on a search to see if the Reiserfs tools have gotten any
>>>> better. I noticed that Reiser4 was released in 2004 and figured
>>>> I'd inquire about it.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm sure Hans Reiser is a smart guy, but his filesystem doesn't
>>> inspire confidence in me.
>> I'd strongly recommend XFS or JFS.
>> Or, if mass storage with reliability is your goal, OpenSolaris
>> (preferrably Nexenta) with ZFS.
>> But that isn't Linux, and this is a Linux list... ;)
>> - Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
>
> Have you ever had to use xfs_check or xfs_repair? How good are
> they? XFS formats out with the same 932GB as Reiserfs so that's
> good. I know Apple uses a version of XFS but I haven't had any
> experience with JFS. Any reason to use it over XFS?
>
> I want reliable backup so I'm not going to use anything
> experimental but my investigating in to Reiser4 also turned up that
> they are working on an ext4. I'm now considering a test box to do
> some benchmarks on these different filesystems just for kicks.
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback!!
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
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