What is your preferred filesystem for your archives?
| We have variety options for filesystems, and each have their goods and odds. This thread is to tell each other about your choices & experiences with them. I myself have hordes of pics (which are relatively small files), and have some manga/doujins unpacked, causing huge directory trees. ext3 has dir_index option to remedy the situation, but with JFS, the latency is just a pain you have to bear along. XFS does fairly good with such trees. Reisers are advertised for their great performance in dealing with hordes of small files, however it's quite a CPU monster, and considering it's the only real-good-thing about reiser, it's out of the window for me. I also have hundreds of GBs HUGE files, which are videos, and no one beats XFS in this field according to Piszcs. XFS does really good about mount & fsck times (ext fsck and reiser mount times do suck) and has several nice features compared to other FSs (such as extents, scalabilty & online defragmentation), i switched to XFS (from JFS, which had serious latency problems with small file hordes), and it's great! An article on Debian-Administration.org suggest XFS is well fit for all needs, and i totally agree with that! By the way, i couldn't find any XFS-tan. Wish we had someone who could draw ecchi... |
salviatiFeb 13, 2012 7:19 AM
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| Ext3 and Reiser. ( I use reiser to speed up portage a bit) |
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| hmm... ext3 on root partition, ext2 on boot partition and xfs on all other partitions. |
| life is a fairytale, told by an idiot |
| ext3, if only for compatibility, although once ext4 is stable and fully workable that'll probably be my go-to (especially when full support for its ability to log file creation timestamps comes to fruition - that's one thing that I find rather necessary, due to how I manage files). Otherwise I actually don't pay too much attention to filesystems, except my current frustration with getting my other partitions automounted correctly with fstab. |
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| nao@nao ~ $ mount -t ext3,ext2,reiserfs | cut -f1-5 -d' ' /dev/root on / type ext3 /dev/hda6 on /home type reiserfs /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hd_80 type ext3 /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 |
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| ext3 - on software RAID1 Had a corrupted reiser once.. no thanks. Ext4 and maybe Btrfs when they get stable and well tested. |
| Voting needs editing, because from kernel version 2.6.28 - ext4 was claimed as stable. PS: reiserfs on "/" and "/home". PPS: As I know, ext3 may become fragmented if you have lots of small files. |
Paagrio said: Voting needs editing, because from kernel version 2.6.28 - ext4 was claimed as stable. PS: reiserfs on "/" and "/home". PPS: As I know, ext3 may become fragmented if you have lots of small files. True, ext3 can become fragmented after long usage. It happens slowly, but it happens. There are tools for defragmenting, but it is not integrated and nobody uses them. As far as I know this was also addressed in the ext4 fs and should be better with it, but file systems tend to move slowly, so adoption will take some time. Also many are waiting for btrfs. |
| Ext4 |
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| /boot - EXT2 / - EXT4 /mnt/EHD* - XFS Yep. Pretty much the same sentiment as everyone else. Can't really contribute much more to the conversation, other than to say it's reassuring how many others use XFS. |
| ext4. Very stable in the current kernel (2.6.34), fast and have online defragmentation. |
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| Not that online defragmentation actually matters, it never fragments anyway. |
| For XFS users, let me mention that if you have a harddisk > 1TB, you probaby want to consider using inode64 option. Btrfs looks promising, expect it feels like we have to wait until it's ready/forever for the fsck. |
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