-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 April 2006 11:02, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & > /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of > changing filesystems (just to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a > typical home user's system.
Personally, I don't see how file system choices are "off-topic", since a Linux based Debian system has some wonderful flexibility where file system is concerned, and everyone has to make this decision at some point even if that decision is go with the "default". Filesystems (ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS) comparison on Debian Etch http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 The external links on the Wikipedia entry are useful for benchmarking, the "comparison" is feature comparison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say, FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add journaling, which is why I also use ext3, but with the caveat that ext3 is just an add-on to ext2. Performance demonstrates this. If I were to decide on something more than just ext3, I think I would go with ReiserFS "just because". It seems quite flexible, and while it does require a periodic "defragmentation", well, such is life. Ext2/3 doesn't require defragmentation, but they are also not as optimized in their performance. There are always trade-offs. Hope this helps, Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRE0Isy9Y35yItIgBAQKqJwf+IBbDQw1UO0spbr+FQs0VIsf8FMnIBNtn q4J9yCP3GcZ3zEj4XXIhxNz8a6hv3Nv/1pBHw1OjgF6Ebo9uxWIgBKtH5qseGaOq Wyb/T02JRGGckN68hzbv3WrAYv7cxCuIbWl2Ru74/oggh/SZfAKx0155Dm+kPfkm YC/2lBs4UTprQgZ+6arOHu9U+q4vK30fUHvArR+hFUndqYf2TCYVovEhm53EH2Cc TIL5rTXelj/0XmHW3UTxDJW/vI4LtXn1afsqDH9A80kAVSN9LiOTmowIMsxcFNV0 rQfzinRu1gNU2puLjv8i9qm4Ko3btM277G2JczkUcQWydhvjXnVHMg== =0FB1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]