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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, <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 I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the |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 have been following this thread. I decided to research to do my own |
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comparisons of ext3, ext4, JFS and XFS. |
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ext3 has 3 journaling levels: |
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Journal (lowest risk) |
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Ordered (medium risk) most Linux distributions are using this one |
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Writeback (highest risk) |
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XFS uses Ordered (medium risk) |
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JFS uses Writeback (highest risk) |
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It appears from the documentation that ext4 takes the best of ext3, XFS and JFS. |
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My research also showed that ext2/3 is the most widely used on Linux |
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and has the greatest community support coverage. |
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ext4 falls into the same category as XFS and JFS in this respect. |
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It appears that ext4, XFS or JFS or some combination of them would be |
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the best choice. |
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If you want to know where I got my information use Google like I did. |
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the |
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people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become |
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happy. - Thomas Jefferson |
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