On 4/21/2010 5:16 PM, Nicholas Blatter wrote: > What's your preferred filesystem?
I was a big fan of XFS until I learned that you can't shrink XFS filesystems. I just can't get used to a system that doesn't have LVM, and if I can't shrink my filesystem, what good is LVM to me? Not much, really. Further, XFS isn't exactly "stable" with 32-bit 4k kernels. Especially if their on LVM that is exported over NFS. Too many nested calls create too many kernel oopses. On the flip, I have really, really been enjoying ext4. It seems to have the speed from XFS that I enjoyed, it has the stability of ext3, and it's a perfect fit for LVM. So, ext4 has won me over. With that said, I'm eagerly awaitng Btrfs to go stable. I get to play with ZFS on Solaris at work, and although a bit slow on just standard disk I/O, it does other things really, really well, like resizing RAID arrays and creating snapshots. If Btrfs is anything like ZFS, I'll be in love. But, for right now, it's ext4 for me. Not perfect, but very well done. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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