Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-29 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/28/2014 12:58 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: When does Hans Reiser get out of jail. The reiserfs was halfway decent. You clearly didn't care about your data surviving a system crash, did you? -derek No. I backed up my data. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-28 Thread Jerry Feldman
I'm a fan of btree file systems going back to the 1970s. IBM used it on their mainframes (VSAM) back then. On 03/28/2014 06:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: aldo albanese [mailto:aldo_alban...@yahoo.com] At the beginning I was not too specific about where I would utilize these

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Small
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: I'm a fan of btree file systems going back to the 1970s. IBM used it on their mainframes (VSAM) back then. Funny, I was just reading how Matthew Dillon intends to change from using btree in Hammer 1 to something else in Hammer 2:

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-28 Thread Jack Coats
I took a VSAM internals class. It was interesting and super for the day. It was based on IBMs Virtual Storage Access Method they used to manage virtual memory, but it expanded and turned into a better alternative to 'ISAM' Index Storage Access Method that was used for database kinds of things

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-27 Thread Richard Pieri
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: LOL. ;-) ext4 is the most stable and least buggy option available to you. That's why it is the default for all distributions. Unless you want to suggest that every distribution maintainer is a bumbling group of fools. Going by the currently open bugs list on

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-27 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/27/2014 07:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro Richard Pieri wrote: ...ext4...is...a poor

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Metro
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I wouldn't touch EXT[N] for anything but a system partition. Can you elaborate on your reasons? XFS or JFS is almost a coin toss, but XFS seems like it is more active. Back in 2006 when I set up a MythTV system, the consensus was to use XFS for the video storage.