On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Nicholas Blatter <[email protected]>wrote:

> Well, now that the list flared to life arguing^Wdiscussing text
> editors, I figured I'd ask a longtime question while everyone is
> awake.
>
> What's your preferred filesystem?  I realize there are many different
> use cases so I won't limit it to servers, desktops, etc.  I'm just
> curious what you use where and why.
>
> I will jump ahead, however, and say that while I anticipate some ext3
> love, I'd rather hear about what you've _replaced_ ext3 with.  As ext3
> is basically the boring default value of the filesystem switch
> statement and is almost 10 (!) years old, hopefully most have moved
> forward.
>
> What say you?
>
> I've moved from Reiser and XFS to EXT4 for all of my production stuff,
mostly for the flexibility of resizing and such. I hate the fscks for
EXT2/3/4, but I'm just buying my time for BTRFS to hit stable.

I have BTRFS on a machine to play with right now and even though there are a
lot of things to tidy up, I'm very optimistic.

I'm also playing with lessfs which is a fun file system.

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University
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