On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:22:49 -0500 Edward Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts on which file system to use? ext3 or xfs?
A bit of background; I used ReiserFS as my root partition(several gigs), /home, and /var for about a year and a half. I've been using XFS for about eight months or a year(since 2.4.0, at least). I have also used ext3 on and off. Right now I use XFS on all my workstations. I've had "issues" with ReiserFS which I won't go into detail here, in order to avoid starting a flamewar. My laptops, however, use ext2 and ext3, since XFS requires rather more resources(read: memory) than ext2, which resulted in out-of-memory situations whenever I had a big dpkg run to do. I switched them to ext2, and everything was fine. However, XFS performed better. I'm positive about that. So assuming your server has a decent amount of memory(the laptops in question only had 32M), you should be fine going with XFS. -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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