[ltp] Filesystem choice?

[Tod Harter]

Well, XFS and JFS are still rumoured to have some bugs, so I wouldn't tou=
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them on a production file server either, not without some serious testing=
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Personally I'd say laptops are about THE #1 machine to have a journalling=
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system on. Sure you don't have the power glitch to worry about, but I mus=
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say that my A20 is down a LOT more often, and crashed a lot more often, t=
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any desktop or server I have. Not that its unstable,  but resume is NEVER=
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100% reliable in linux to my knowledge, so that is itself a good enough=20
reason.

Personally I've been having no problems with Reiserfs spinning up the dis=
k. It=20
definitely spins down when the system suspends, and I never seem to hear =
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coming back up again. I have no real experience with ext3, except to say =
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my benchmarks its always been a lot slower than Reiserfs.

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 01:30 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a 600X, and I noticed that under
> windows2000, the machine almost never writes to disk when idle (or doin=
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> simple tasks). However, under Mandrake 9.0, I think I am getting a
> journal write every 10 seconds.
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> Since I have a choice of FSs available (Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, JFS), =
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> was wondering what others would reccomend, in terms of less disk usage
> when idle without sacrificing FS robustness. I guess a journalling FS i=
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> not so critical on a machine with a built-in UPS, but I still don't lik=
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> ext2 ...
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> Of course, XFS has some nice features, but this isn't a fileserver ;-).
>
> Buchan
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Tod G. Harter
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