On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:45, Brett Fenton wrote: > > http://www.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/courses/akti12/journal/02ws/article_02ws_Menedetter.pdf > > I read this a while back it's about as clear as it's going to get, > though has dated very slightly.
It's also not there. Cheers, Bret > > Brett > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Mary"> > > > >>On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> > >>>But you're better off choosing ext3, jfs or xfs over reiserfs. :-) > >> > >>C'mon, back your assertions, it makes world domination easier you know! > > > > > > :-) Lots of rehashing here, but for the benefit of the list: > > > > Okay, so, reiserfs has no recovery tools. None. If something goes wrong, > > whammo, you're potentially toast, eggs and bacon. It doesn't use inodes > > internally, so if you're running an NFS server on top of it, there's a > > translation layer in between. Slow, and not worth the indirection. It > > doesn't scale particularly well with SMP. It's a metadata-only journalling > > filesystem, so you're not protecting the integrity of the data itself, just > > the description of the data. It has had a number of extents-related issues > > in the past, writing over files and data that it should not have. > > Personally, I would not use reiserfs in a production environment, though I > > do use it for /tmp, for cvs checkouts and for big build trees. > > > > XFS is a long-standing filesystem that has been used on OS/2 and IRIX. It is > > especially good for high throughput applications, such as media work (which > > is not surprising given SGI's market). Metadata only journalling, scales > > incredibly well with multiple CPUs (even under 2.4) and includes POSIX ACLs > > (even under 2.4), which are kind of cool if you're using recent versions of > > SAMBA and serving up to Windows PCs. XFS also supports a realtime partition > > type, which is designed to guarantee very high throughput rates for the most > > demanding applications (though it will be a while before this is fully > > supported in Linux). > > > > On the other hand, ext3 is a relatively slow filesystem which is on-disk > > compatible with ext2, with optional full data journalling (which in some > > cases actually makes it faster; mail queues are a good example). You can > > upgrade to ext3 from ext2 without any hassles. There are lots of > > improvements to ext2/3 all the time, such as Daniel Phillips' htree patch > > which improves directory indexing performance. Because "basically everyone" > > uses these filesystems, you can rely on them as the most heavily tested and > > most likely to be improved filesystems available for Linux. > > > > - Jeff > > > > -- > Brett Fenton > General Manager > NetRegistry Pty Ltd > _______________________________________________ > > http://www.netregistry.com.au/ > > Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 > PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia > > Your Total Internet Business Services Provider > Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 > > > > This email is from NetRegistry Pty Ltd. The contents of this message are > commercial and in confidence to the intended addresseee. > > The message may contain copyrighted and/or legally priviledged > information. No person or entity other than the intended recipient may > read, print or store this message, including any and all attached files. > > The intended recipient may not forward this message to any third party > without express written permission from NetRegistry Pty Ltd. > -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
