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meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the |
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> best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on |
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> uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database |
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> machines etc. |
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> Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC |
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> with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources |
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> I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example). |
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> Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to |
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> reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not |
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> cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be |
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> good in recovering such thing. |
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> I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel. |
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> The question, what remains is: What choose should I make? |
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> I thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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I notice you have a fairly large drive. You may want to indicate |
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whether or not you will be putting large files on it or what not. If |
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you are, some files systems work better with large files. That said, if |
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you plan to have a lot of small files, then another file system may work |
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better. If you plan to have a mix, then it could get interesting. ;-) |
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I use reiserfs myself and have had no problems, even with a hard |
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shutdown or some other failure. Thing is, most file systems are good |
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but it depends on what you will be putting on it. From my experience, |
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don't use XFS unless you have a UPS and will not be having to pull the |
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plug. I tried XFS a while back and each time there was a hard shutdown, |
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I had to reinstall. It was running Mandriva so I didn't know how to |
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recover with it and no other bootable CD either. XFS has its good |
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points but surviving a power plug pull is not one of them. |
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I will also say this, it is a good idea to ask first on this. There are |
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a lot of good file systems out there and each one has its strong |
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points. It's best to get the right one first rather than to have to |
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redo things later on. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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