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> reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a |
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> lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care |
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> about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%. |
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I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly the assumption |
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was that the likelihood of data loss occurring due to the barriers |
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issue was negligible. I have no expertise to decide on that matter, |
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but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by |
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default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop |
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usage), no? |
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Somewhat offtopic: |
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What do you suggest for me? I care about data safety, but am too lazy |
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to make frequent backups, so filesystem robustness and availability of |
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data recovery tools is pretty important; and as I said before, the |
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only performance problem with my computer that I think may be related |
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to filesystem is boot time and launching heavy programs not in cache; |
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keep in mind my root partition is only 3,8 GB used and 93% free - |
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maybe in this condition the filesystem is not stressed and only the |
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actual HD speed matters? Valerie Henson from VAH Consulting says that |
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every file system goes fast with: |
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* O(1000) files per directory |
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* File size a few KB to a few GB |
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* Read-mostly access |
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* Infrequent file creation/deletion |
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* Sequential file read/write patterns |
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* Shallow directory depth (< 10 levels) |
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* Total file system size O(100 GB) |
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