RE: [MLUG] different file systems

["McIntosh, Jason W. (UMC-Student)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have to put my vote in for XFS.  I've been running it for months now,
and it's been rock stable, no problems whatsoever.  And the handy ISO
image provided by SGI makes it nice and easy to install.  Then, there's
ACL support, xfsdump, xfsrestore, etc. 
Add a vote for XFS!
Jason 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Monroe
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Sent: 4/1/02 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MLUG] different file systems

I think thats the main thing for folks like us; ReiserFS is part of the
standard kernel so it easier to use. I've heard ReiserFS declared not
ready for general use, since there have been several corruption fixes in
2.4.x. Those same people said XFS was (it was that new bsd-like linux
distro announced on slashdot yesterday). 

ReiserFS is better at smaller files (less then 4kb).

I've been using ReiserFS for a few months, installed it with Mandrake
and 
then wiped out Mandrake and installed Debian. 

Ian Monroe
http://ian.webhop.org

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, yoda wrote:

> ext3 is slowest of the three, because it's built on top of ext2. The
> upside is that you don't have to backup your files to reformat your
> partition.
> 
> As for XFS vs. Reiserfs, I'm not really sure. I've heard good things
about
> both of them, and I use reiserfs with no problems whatsoever. I think
I
> remember awhile back looking on the web for comparisons, and it seems
one
> is faster for large files, the other for small files, but the
difference
> isn't really all that huge. Reiser was just easier for me to get my
hands
> on (I'm a Slackware guy, and the tools were already there).
> 
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Brent Deterding wrote:
> 
> > OK - I would like to know, in general, about XFS and how it compares
to ext3
> > and resierfs.
> > 
> > -- Brent
> > 

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