Re: ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread David B Harris
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 m

Re: ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
Edward Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just received a 160 gb hard drive that I plan to partition as one > big partition and mount as /home/public on the family file server > (woody). Most of the files in this directory are mp3, mpg, avi, etc. > > I've constructed a 2.4.16 kernel with the r

Re: ext3 vs xfs

2002-01-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:22:49AM -0500, Edward Kear wrote: > > Anyone have any thoughts on which file system to use? ext3 or xfs? > The decision is arbitrary, really. It sounds like the fs will not be heavily loaded, so you don't care about any performance issues. You just need the thing to