stosss <sto...@gmail.com> [10-04-03 05:31]: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the > > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on > > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database > > machines etc. > > > > Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC > > with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources > > I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example). > > Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to > > reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not > > cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be > > good in recovering such thing. > > > > I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel. > > > > The question, what remains is: What choose should I make? > > I have been following this thread. I decided to research to do my own > comparisons of ext3, ext4, JFS and XFS. > > ext3 has 3 journaling levels: > > Journal (lowest risk) > Ordered (medium risk) most Linux distributions are using this one > Writeback (highest risk) > > XFS uses Ordered (medium risk) > JFS uses Writeback (highest risk) > > It appears from the documentation that ext4 takes the best of ext3, XFS and > JFS. > > My research also showed that ext2/3 is the most widely used on Linux > and has the greatest community support coverage. > > ext4 falls into the same category as XFS and JFS in this respect. > > It appears that ext4, XFS or JFS or some combination of them would be > the best choice. > > If you want to know where I got my information use Google like I did. > > -- > If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the > people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become > happy. - Thomas Jefferson >
Hi Stoss, thanks for your effort ! :) As I wrote, I did googling before starting this thread and found mostly outdated informations or informations not applying to my situation. Often it is best -- regardless what papers of 2008 or before are stateing -- to ask people for their current and uptodate experiences. Additionally your informations are all pure technical based...they are missing exactly what I was searching for: Experiences of people using different setups. And as you can see: This thread reports many of that. Best reagrds. mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.