Which FS do you prefer?

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Flatline
NTFS is OK for desktops (for large server systems, I want a journalized file system). The early versions were a bit of a nightmare, but it's hard to tell whether it was the file system of the OS that was the problem (NT 3.x was horrifying)

NTFS is journaled.

 

[Flatline]

Sorry, misspoke (or mistyped, as the case may be); thanks for catching that. I meant to say that I want a journalized FS with better recovery tools...now I'm starting to act like my girlfriend and expect people to know what I mean when I leave out half the sentence 😉

 

[ProviaFan]

I like NTFS on Windows NT OSes, and XFS on Linux systems. Used Ext2 a long time, and then Ext3 for a bit before switching to XFS. Had a brief affair with ReiserFS also, and never had any problems with any of them. Of course, I don't really hammer my desktop system much, so I wouldn't be one to find many bugs in a FS. 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Flatline
Yeah, I have noticed a speed difference between EXT3 and ReiserFS on the same machine (test box at work) as well; Reiser seems to be quicker with most things than EXT. Anyone have an idea which is faster when recovering?

Some 'nixes (RedHat, noticably) don't really give the option of formatting a partition with Reiser and a couple of other file systems (without some nasty hacking); anyone know why?

Noc, do you remember which 'nix mag you were looking at that had that article? That would be interesting (boy, I just showed how geeky I am, huh) 😉

Linux Magazine, Oct 2002

 

[pac1085]

I dont know much about XFS + the preempt kernel patch, but I've been running it for a while. Back in the late 2.4.18 days and early 2.4.19 days these messages about programs exiting with a preeempt count of something was printed to the console constantly and it would grind the computer to a hault. I've been using gentoo-sources-r10 (based on lolo-sources 2.4.19.10_pre6 I think) for a little bit now with no problems - no idea if anything has been fixed but its running great so far.

 

[BlackOmen]

Originally posted by: Vortex
I dont know much about XFS + the preempt kernel patch, but I've been running it for a while. Back in the late 2.4.18 days and early 2.4.19 days these messages about programs exiting with a preeempt count of something was printed to the console constantly and it would grind the computer to a hault. I've been using gentoo-sources-r10 (based on lolo-sources 2.4.19.10_pre6 I think) for a little bit now with no problems - no idea if anything has been fixed but its running great so far.

I have no idea if it's been fixed yet either, but perhaps your experience is indicative that it has been fixed. Hopefully it's fixed in the 2.5 branch since XFS has been merged.

 

[Flatline]

Thanks for the response NoC