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.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Couple of years back I had tried JFS and had a horrid time trying to get a live CD which could mount it when it got hosed. I don't recall the specific details now. I have XFS on another partition currently, it doing quite well so far. No problems with it. But, I haven't benchmarked or conducted any kind of test on different FS's myself so can't comment anything more on them.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Couple of years back I had tried JFS and had a horrid time trying to get a live CD which could mount it when it got hosed. I don't recall the specific details now. I have XFS on another partition currently, it doing quite well so far. No problems with it. But, I haven't benchmarked or conducted any kind of test on different FS's myself so can't comment anything more on them.
Thanks. :)
On Thursday 12 February 2009 21:32, Mehul Ved wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Couple of years back I had tried JFS and had a horrid time trying to get a live CD which could mount it when it got hosed. I don't recall the specific details now.
I use jfs on all servers (and desktops too). No problem at all. Btw any journal file system is going to be slow on write. But they are reliable and recover easily.
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 -
1. 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. 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.
regards C
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.
--
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
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2009, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] 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.
Seriously what kind of slowdown are you experiencing?
I would take the approach "don't fix it if it ain't broken" ext3 is very stable and comes with a good tool set for maintenance.
Use some other disk partition to experiment with the various journaling fs to whet your curiosity.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Arun Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2009, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] 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.
Seriously what kind of slowdown are you experiencing?
No slowdowns. I just want to try, so was looking for LUGers opinion.
I would take the approach "don't fix it if it ain't broken" ext3 is very stable and comes with a good tool set for maintenance.
Use some other disk partition to experiment with the various journaling fs to whet your curiosity.
Sure.
you could also try moving to ext4 if you want to experiment with filesystems, but try and get the latest kernel/distro before you do this.
The ext4 is suppose to be slightly faster than ext3.
Derwyn
2009/2/15 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Arun Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
On Wednesday 11 Feb 2009, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] 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.
Seriously what kind of slowdown are you experiencing?
No slowdowns. I just want to try, so was looking for LUGers opinion.
I would take the approach "don't fix it if it ain't broken" ext3 is very stable and comes with a good tool set for maintenance.
Use some other disk partition to experiment with the various journaling fs to whet your curiosity.
Sure.
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