Jarry wrote: > 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. >
I would summarize it this way: If high performance appeals to you, give reiserfs a try. If full data journaling (instead of just meta-data) appeals to you, go with ext3, but read up on the tuning options available. I should note that for some very specific workloads, full data journaling with ext3 will be faster than reiserfs. I would ignore the arguments about "x filesystem corrupted my data, and y never has". Personally, I had filesystem corruption with reiserfs back in '99 or so. It interacted badly with the VM in a few of the 2.4 kernel series. In another case, I had faulty hardware. But data corruption is not widespread for any of (xfs, reiserfs, ext3, jfs) with current and properly configured kernels and working (especially not overclocked) hardware. Pick one and use it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
