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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:08:26
Message-Id: q2j5bdc1c8b1004020907i67ea22dfm788ae9b2ab93f599@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
6 > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
7 > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
8 > machines  etc.
9 >
10 > Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC
11 > with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources
12 > I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example).
13 > Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to
14 > reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not
15 > cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be
16 > good in recovering such thing.
17 >
18 > I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel.
19 >
20 > The question, what remains is: What choose should I make?
21 >
22 > I thank you very much in advance for any help!
23 > Best regards,
24 > mcc
25 >
26
27 This doesn't address why you would choose one over another but it was
28 a recent view of Reiser4 vs a couple of others.
29
30 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=reiser4_benchmarks&num=1
31
32 I'm way behind. I haven't even tried ext4 yet!
33
34 Good luck,
35 Mark