Which file system do you prefer?

To all who are saying ext3 - is this just cos you haven't actually used anything else? If not, then please explain as that is the kind of info required here.

Personally I am a fan of XFS for my storage servers, but I usually use ext3 for the system drives as this is a well tried and used format and there are plenty of tools out there.

XFS rock solid, handles large media files easily, and never any issues with hard shutdowns (ynk the power cord out).

If the op has been experimenting for weeks, why doesnt he just install a few partitions with various formats and test them?

Last time I looked at this JFS and XFS were pretty decent, ext2/3 were nice and steady medium, and resier was pretty decent for space when using thousands of small files.

I'm in the process of redoing a linux box here and I'll probably go for XFS on the 2x 500GB drives, and ext 3 on the rest, with a small ext2 boot partition.

Probably what's more important that FS is mount options, and block size etc.
 
sablabra said:
OK I'll give that a go. But the partition I'm mounting, is there any advantage in making it ext3 or should I just stick with ntfs?
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If windows is no longer present, no send in burdening Linux with MS stuff really.

EXT3 is native to Linux, it likes it, and knows all about it.

Advantage wise......nnnnnnnya well, you get proper file permissions, but for a downloads directory I suppose the only purpose of that would be hiding your pron ;)
 
whitecrook said:
To all who are saying ext3 - is this just cos you haven't actually used anything else? If not, then please explain as that is the kind of info required here.
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I was using ReiserFS as I heard it was a lot faster for smaller files and at the time I was using Linux on my media (mp3) file server. As I started to add video files I moved to ext3 as more distros were using it as default and that's mainly the reason I use it now.

I'm still looking at ReiserFS and the next version on my desktops for performance to see if it improves over ext3. :)
 
afraser2k said:
I'm still looking at ReiserFS and the next version on my desktops for performance to see if it improves over ext3. :)
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Same here... I've used ext3 simply cause it's the default during installs, and it's always worked well for me in the past (if it ain't broke...) however, I'm curious to give ReiserFS a proper whirl but I've not got round to it yet.
 
I've done moronic things with Ext3 and with Reiser.
Ext3 saved most of the files, but knackered the directory structure (on my / and I JUST managed to fix it ;) ), and reiserfs, afer a power failure during some major disc ops, had "shuffled" some of my files....notably shoving a load of . files into my mailbox files....big fail, lost mail :(

Reiser IS quick and reliable (as long as you don't turn the ruddy power off with a lot of half committed writes lol), and worth looking at. I just use Ext3 as I am most familiar with it really.
I Must look at some of the others though.
 
At first glance, It's a tad expensive given the purpose of the machines.
The Linux box provides no services to anything other than my laptop(glorfied mplayer remote control and websurfer), and winbox,and once in a blue moon my brother may mount a share. It just plods along burning about (110-2xspundown discs)W (I forgot to test it with the drives spundown, reckon 15W per disc, the machine is prob eating 80W ish?), functioning as my TV and hifi, vcr, general desktop slave etc etc.
As for vital services for other users and the outside world, we have a box for that (read that in a snooty English accent as if saying "I have a man for that".).
My winbox is a gaming rig and DAW (never could deal with ardour, actually if it's not cubase I'm shafted).
I'm fairly good with backups, and barring the unlikely event of a true headcrash (watch for me posting within 24 hours on the HD forum :ulp: ), I can get away with the odd power out (we do get em as we have prepay electric and I'm a scatty brained eejit).


It MAY be worth looking at for that server I mentioned though, she IS vital, tempremental at boot and stacked to the nostrils with hard discs....which my brother is in charge of failing to backup in any meaningful way.
The unit could JUST support my two, the server and my bro's desktop as long as all weren't flat out at the time (lets say 150 for my Linux box, 400 for the winbox, 300 for my bro's desktop and 150 for the server..........that only puts us over by about 50W, and it's an infinitely improbable situation that all their sum total of 11 cores and 3 gpu's would be hammering at 100% AND I've over estimated the load usage on the linux machines, in reality I didn't get mine to draw more than 140).
Could be worth a shot if we could cable it to support all the boxen.




LOL, I should edit this, because I meant to post "oooooh, bit pricey mate", and have, apparently talked myself into buying one.
ROFLMAO.
 
Moredhel said:
The main downside to reiserfs is that the developer of it (Hans Reiser) has just been found guilty of murdering his wife, and is looking at 25 to life, although he's not yet been sentenced.
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Just thought I'd post this... it's not worthy of a thread of its own, and I doubt people outside the Linux & Open Source area know who Hans Reiser is. Anyway, apparently Hans has now led the police to his wife's body...

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/hans-reiser-bri.html
Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of killing his wife, Nina Reiser, has led authorities to her body in the Oakland hills, one of his attorneys has confirmed.
The Oakland Police Department also confirms a body was found Monday, but the remains "have not yet been positively identified," spokesman Roland Holmgren said.
Threat Level reported last month that Reiser was attempting to negotiate a deal for a 15-to-life sentence instead of 25-to-life if he produced his wife's body.
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I've used both ext3 and reiserFS. ReiserFS was quicker for my media centre under Arch and Laptop has ext3 because that's what Ubunutu did with it's LVM and disk encryption setup.

Have heard some good things about ZFS too.
 
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