[SATLUG] choosing a filesystem

[Alex Bartonek]

--- "Daniel J. Givens" <daniel at rugmonster.org> wrote:

> I used to use reiserfs, but moved over to xfs for my
> media storage
> earlier last year because it performs better with
> larger files. I also
> moved ahead with using it on my desktop and I think
> it may be slightly
> faster, but not exceptionally so. Combined with lvm,
> it makes for nice
> expansion possibilities, but you would have that
> with lvm and reiserfs
> or ext3. One of the features that reiserfs and ext3
> have over xfs is
> that when using lvm, you can reduce their size.
> Unfortunately, you
> can't do that with xfs.
> 
> To be honest, I think ext3 is great all around
> filesystem. It's been
> very stable, degrades to ext2 just fine, and with
> ext4 in the works,
> looks like it could have a nice upgrade path. They
> all provide
> journaling, so there is no real difference there,
> but xfs does mount
> and dismount much more quickly than ext3 or
> reiserfs. I just set up a
> LAMP server and a Postfix/Cyrus server for a client
> and went with ext3
> for its stability and comparable performance. With
> their fast drives,
> the systems both rock.
> 
> As for your running Apache in the VMWare instance,
> have you thought
> about using xen to get native speeds? If performance
> isn't an issue,
> then your current solution works just fine, I'm
> sure. But who doesn't
> want a little more speed? :P

I'll have to take a look at xen.   I wonder if anyone
has played around w/reiserfs v4?  supposedly the
fastest fs?



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