I've used a mix of Reiser and XFS. Usually my root partition I've used as Reiser for the small file performance and then XFS for home or any other partition that stores larger files. This has worked well for me generally. I did run into a problem where I had some hard mounts into a chroot and decided that I didn't need to move it to my new computer so I deleted it. It deleted my whole home directory, there was no recovery options for XFS, so it was all lost. Needless to say, I set up Bacula on my new machine the same day to prevent that in the future.
Robert On 1/23/08 1:54 PM, "Daniel Fullmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ext3 has worked well for me in the past, but I always felt like I was > missing out on the latest and greatest. > I also used also use ReiserFS as well, but stopped using it because of > the problems already mentioned. > Reiser4 performance for small files was great, but I just finished > recovering from a catastrophic Reiser4 failure, so I personally > wouldn't recommend it to anyone. (fsck.reiser4 ended up removing > about half of my files) Also, the sync operation on reiser4 was > extremely slow (around 3-4 seconds), so any application that used > sqlite would take forever since it calls fsync() all the time. > I'm currently trying out XFS. It is a little slower for operations on > many small files, but has nice utilities like xfs_fsr. > I'm also hoping to try out ext4 and btrfs > (http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/). I'll probably wait a few > months for them to become a bit more stable before I move anything > important to it! > > On Jan 23, 2008 1:21 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A very long time ago, when reiserfs was still under heavy development, I >> opted to move to it rather than to move to ext3 (I was still on ext2). >> It seemed like it was a good filesystem, and it never gave me troubles. >> Lately, I am thinking moving off reiserfs, as it seems development has >> basically stopped. There have also been a decent number of bugs to crawl >> out of the reiserfs woodwork. >> I am thinking about XFS, but I haven't read anything about it yet. >> >> Jeff Anderson >> >> >> Maulik Mistry wrote: >>> So which file systems are preferred by the members. Why or why not? >>> >>> -Maulik Mistry >>> -------------------- >>> BYU Unix Users Group >>> http://uug.byu.edu/ >>> >>> The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their >>> author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. >>> ___________________________________________________________________ >>> List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------- >> BYU Unix Users Group >> http://uug.byu.edu/ >> >> The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their >> author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >> > > -- Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801)422-1882 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
