On Friday 13 February 2009 12:49, Chetan S wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com wrote:
Hello LUG Members,
I want to try XFS on my home system. I have read some articles saying XFS is faster than Ext3 but Less reliable than it. So, I would like to read your experiences about FSs other than Ext3.
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You could search for some benchmarking for different fs but here are my exp -
- Desktop related files - fs = Reiser fs ( I know there's no
more development etc etc ... ) but it still is the most suitable for an avg linux user. If your h/w is old don't use this. btw data recovery is really bad in reiser fs you stand losing your data big-time if the h/w crashes ( different from power failure ) 2. DB , Big files fs = XFS works really well for data where new files aren't created and the file size is really big. yane ki movies store karna hai toh yahan karo. 3. ext3 / ext 4 = production grade filesystems that allow really good data recovery in case there's some h/w failure. home office vagera ke liye yeh accha hai. If you want more speed try the writeback mode. 4. JFS ka experience toh dicey raha hai.
Jfs is faster.
No great advantage over xfs / ext3 5. If you are adventurous then give ext 4 ( with extents ) or btrfs a try on a separate partition.
btrfs is not in mainline and highily experimental afaik.
regards C