Attn: Civeleme and J. Craig Woods (and others): I've started this page to accumulate information about filesystems, including some sort of comparative rating of journaling filesystems:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxFilesystems It is intended to be more or less a summary rather than getting into all the details, although if I begin to collect details I can add them (or you can add them, as it is a wiki), maybe on sub pages dedicated to each particular file system. Currrently the comparative rating is something I call the C.Rating (for civileme), and it is a rating I applied to the journaling filesystems without looking up civileme's old post(s). Civileme -- if you have time please look over the page and give me any comments you may have (or objections to using your name, or whatever). J. Craig Woods -- (is there a short form of your name that you use?) -- I'm not sure if I know what you mean by the attribs -- I assume you mean the -rwxrwxrwx permissions on a typical Linux file. Does this also include the concepts of owner and group? (i.e., reiser does not support those?) Maybe you meant the more dos like attributes, like hidden, read-only, archive, and hidden? (I get the impression some Linux filesystems include those attributes.) Everybody else -- additions and judicious editing are solicited. You will have to register at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration by providing your name, email address (which is spam "proofed" on twiki.org), and your home country -- a very onerous set of requirements ;-) regards, Randy Kramer J. Craig Woods wrote: > Like so many different variations on your machine, filesytems should be > made with reference to as many criteria as possible. Yes, speed is good > but what if you go for speed and lose some function you might need? As a > SA there are times I need to set file attributes. You know, a file gets > deleted that should not have been deleted, etc. With file attribs, I > have saved by butt many times. Ext3 will let me set file attributes, and > reiserfs does not support them. My choice is not choice: I must go with > ext2 or ext3. The bottom line is make choices based on what you need...
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