On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 05:18, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > Maybe It's an old question and man of you have seen similar questions. > But I read the archive and couldn't make up my mind. I am a newbie to > Linux and am willing to buy Mandrake Linux 8.2. But I don't know what > file system to use.
> I am willing to install my Linux on my desktop computer. I don't want > it to be secure. nor I want it to give me back up options, nor do I > use RAID. I just want the fastest File system and I want it to be > stable enough ( not that much stable, any thing more stable than FAT > will suite me). > If possible please also give me a list of File systems that are available with >version 8.2 and please tell me which one best suit my needs. > Linux Registered user # 266090 > Aryan The purpose of the journaling filesystems is to preserve data integrity. There is a processing overhead incurred with the journalling process. Consequently, if you are not interested in data integrity or recovery, ext2 will probably be your best choice. It has no data logging facilities to slow it down. If you change your mind about the data integity priorities, XFS seems to be the best thing going for speed vs data integrity. For those looking for total data safety, ext3 is the best way. I understand that it is the only fs available that provides data journaling mode. The other journaling fs's are metadata logging systems. I run ext3 on an Athlon 964 mhz with raid 0, and it's been plenty fast for me. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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