[SATLUG] choosing a filesystem

[Samuel Leon]

http://fsbench.netnation.com/
http://fsbench.netnation.com/new_hardware/combined/iozone.html

Some info and benchmarks.

I really like ext2, but I everytime my desktop would lock up or I would 
have to force it off I would loose a bunch of kde config files. Then I 
would have to spend 2 hours editing everything to get my theme right 
again.  I switched to ext3 with journal_data_writeback and although the 
file integrity is there, the writes are slow.  A disc to disc copy would 
normally pull 45m/Bs  with ext2.  With ext3 a disc to disc copy will 
start out at 50m/Bs, but quickly fall down to 10m/Bs :(

Took me like almost 4 hours to copy 80gb of data the other night :-/

The more I read about filesystems, the more I realize there is not a 
"jack of all trades".


Sam


Alex Bartonek wrote:
> I downloaded SuSE 10.2 and noticed the default fs is
> ext3.  I currently use reiserfs and its served me
> well..I've "accidentally" powered off my system and
> others a few times only to have reiserfs save my hide.
> I've done some reading on reiser vs. ext3 vs. xfs etc
> but want to know if there are any stats on which is
> best for desktop use.  (head to head comparison would
> be nice)  For what I do..video editing would be the
> biggest hd hog, but I also run a VMWare session which
> is my webserver and another vm machine.
>
> Alex
>
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