On 28 March 2012 08:57, Richard Yao <r...@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
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> Could we amend this to also include the benefits of ZFS and why you
> would want to use XFS or reiserfs instead of ext{2,3,4} as your
> filesystem in situations where ZFS is not yet appropriate (e.g. using it
> on Gentoo stable)? We could also include documentation on Reiser4 while
> we are at it.Thats probably asking a bit much, I've done my experimenting with XFS/reiserfs , the benefits aren't that substantial to be worth the hassle of the negatives. And as for Reiser4, if there's any documentation mentioning that I think it being simply "Don't use Reiser4" adequate enough. Noob Level: Just Use Ext4 Intermediate: Just Use Ext4, use Ext3 or 2 if you want more something else, but ext4 should do the trick Advanced: Entertain the ideas of XFS/reiser if you want, but you're not likely going to see a *lot* of difference over ext4 on its own partition. Not in the long term. I used to advocate JFS, but long term experience with it taught me JFS is fast for new file systems, and gets progressively slower over time. The original IBM JFS had a defrag tool nobody managed to port to Linux so JFS just gets crufty and stays that way. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
