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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