Robert Scussel schrieb am Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:27:04AM -0500: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Theodore J. Knab wrote: > > > Which Filesystem would give me the least worries ? > > > > You need a jornaled filesystem with proper directory indexing. All the > > current journaling filesystems for Linux (that I know of) are acceptable :) > > > > > I am familiar with ext3 and ext2, I haven't done much with the the > > > others. But, I am willing to learn if it will reduce my worry level. > > > > Well, I am using ext3 myself, but this is a server which does not need high > > levels of performance. xfs is rumored to be faster, and just as safe. > > > we use xfs for our corporate mail and it is definitely the best choice > (my opinion) as far as journaled filesystems go. We were using reiserfs > before the xfs installers came out, but we had various corruptions with > that.
Can you give details upon that? There are numerous but somewhat "dark" hints throughout the net on corruption using reiserfs, but no one seems to share what really happended under what circumstances using which versions. We use reiserfs for some months now for two quite big cyrus mailstore systems as extensive performance tests showed that it is the fastest on almost all accounts. We were (and are) somewhat split on using it instead of something "safer" but as no one could bring up decent information about reiser and corruptions we decided to use it anyway - so far with no hickups in sight, hoping this will last ;-) Maybe you can hand over some arguments that xfs/ext3 is definitely far more reliable than reiser? Regards, - Birger
