On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:00:00PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: > >Strange how Jarry is quiet about all this... > > I'm counting votes, and waiting for some final decision to come. > I can not contribute to this discussion, because I have absolutely > no experience with journaling filesystems at all. That's why I > asked... > > Up to now I'm more confused than before posting my question. > Anyway thanks to all who replied.
you posted a standard flamewar question. fortunately it hasn't degerated into that. :) look at how much support (paid development and debugging) there are behind things: redhat supports ext3 commercially. suse supports reiserfs commercially. sgi supports xfs commercially. ibm presumably supports jfs commercially. who are the largest linux players of those? redhat and suse. what markets do sgi and ibm target? the large machine data center (read: their fses probably don't get so much testing an a laptop suspend/resume/power loss/non-ecc memory/crash setup). my own experience? i've used all of ext2, ext3, xfs, and reiserfs all on both laptops and servers. currently i'm using reiserfs on my home media server and ext3 on a laptop. my laptop needs a reinstall thanks to dell support. what will i choose? ext3 or reiser on a coin toss. regardless of what you choose, prove any fs to yourself before depending on it. install with it and run a burn-in doing lots of random io with reads and checksum verification later for a few days. pull the plug several times during this and see what happens. any filesystem is only as good as the particular implementation(s) that you choose to let write to your disk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
