Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:47:43 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4 future |
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:24:20PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > <OT> > As a datapoint i'm running ext2, reiserfs, JFS and XFS each > for different reasons. > > ext2 -- boot (i'm stodgy) and 2kb blocks for archive CDs > > reiserfs3 -- filesystems not exported nfs (no > historical version level that i can confirm whether > i have or not will namesys assert is reliable over > nfs) >
Maybe you should just try it? I've used reiserfs on an NFS/samba server, and it didn't give me trouble.
> jfs -- most nfs exported filesystems, decent > performance and solid but i don't use if for home > because in SuSE's 2.4.18 (i know it is ancient but > solid for me) jfs doesn't update mtime of > directories unless the block allocation changes > breaking maildir update detection.
This has been fixed in newer versions of JFS though, right?
> xfs -- home (because of the jfs bug) Earlier tests > of xfs gave me horrible performance and i haven't > gotten around to testing since then. If this is > fixed without tuning i might drop jfs. Then again i > may drop xfs in the next upgrade if i change distros > and xfs isn't in-kernel.
What about ext3? I tend to prefer ext3 since I know how it works more than the others, and it puts data integrity ahead of performance, which is the way things should be (TM).
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