What filesystem do you use?

ElCondor · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject: What filesystem do you use?

Since this is widely and often discussed, maybe it would be interesting to ask the gentoo-users themselves..

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PS: I think the most interesing question is what journalling filesystem you use. like kanuslupus there will be quite some using ext2 + something jounalling. In this case, just select the journalling one you trust

PPS: no, i won't add FAT :lol:

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pjp · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

Should be able to check all that apply

. I use ext2 for /boot and ext3 for /

craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

Ext3 for all Linux partitions, FAT32 for the BSOD (Windows)

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c_kuzmanic · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 6:54 pm Post subject:

I use ext 3 since Reiser still has issues with 2.4xx Kernels. However, once Reiser is ready for production deployment I'll be one happy camper.

stroke · n00b Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Italy

ext2

I often need to resize partitions, and well ... I only know ext2 fs resize progs.

ElCondor · Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:15 pm Post subject:

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

I used to be all about riserFS when I was using Mandrake but then I started reading how unstable it is. EXT3 seems to be really fast and rock solid stable. My son who is 1 year and 3 months old turns off the power to my case like once a day and I have never had a single problem due to that. So I am using EXT3 and lovin it

Malakin · Posted: Sat May 25, 2002 1:16 am Post subject:

I've used Reiser for quite some time and it's always worked great. I tried out xfs on my first gentoo install and ended up going back to Reiser on the install I'm currently using (2nd). I found certain thing like using find to be a hell of a lot faster in Reiser.

I see people referring to stories of file corruption using certain filesystems but of all the Linux messageboards I read it's extremely rare that I ever see anyone actually claim it's happened to them while they've used any of the journelling filesystems and even then I've got to wonder if it's something they've caused themselves.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

ext3 for my root - ext2 for my boot .... easy to setup, easy to maintain
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dice · Guru Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 577

I use ReiserFS, have been for some time. I've yet to have a problem with it

Oh, and there's an NTFS patition on this machine too... I don't complain about it too much though since it gives me native win32 libs for WINE

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Except some very small partitions with ext2, all my partitions are have the reiserFS. On my server, reiserFS partitions are used for about a year, without any troubles. A least with many small files reiserFS is much faster than ext[23].

I've also experimented with XFS. But for my it was not quite stable: after a few mounts everything I lost everthing. Completely unable to mount. Happily it was just a testingmachine

The only way out: `mkreiserfs`

lx · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 11:49 am Post subject:

Use reiserfs, and for some time now. emerge and find work very fast because of the database like style of reiserfs, never had any corruption and it has been said it only happened in the 2.4.15 release and a few before. Used ext3 / XFT / JFS. but still reiserfs is my choice. XFT it too big and ain't very fast. JFS is too new and needs seperate patches. Reiserfs is in the kerneltree for some time now and the only place where I read about it's unstability is here in the install docs. Many many people use reiserfs (standard for mandrake / suse) so think it's stable enough. For my data files I use a separate partition using ext2 (most reliable of them all), never had any problems.

Well it's you're choice, lX
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DArtagnan · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject:

Curious · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:25 am Post subject:

tyreth · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:47 am Post subject:

What's the advantages and disadvantages of reiserfs both in general and compared to ext3?

ElCondor · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 5:49 am Post subject:

I found reiserfs to be much faster than ext(2/3), especially then it comes to directories containing lots (meaning a few hundreds or thousands) of files, and reiserfs helps saving diskspace, since it's not restricted to the inode-size.

the german computermagazine c't hat a comparison of ext2/ext2/reiser/xfs/jfs about 6 weeks ago, when I got a spare minute I will search it for the article and maybe post the resumee

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Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 845 Location: USA

XFS works better with gentoo than Reiserfs.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Used reiserfs and ext3 with debian and LinuxFromScratch.

Thought I'd try XFS with Gentoo and am very pleased with it, love the perforemance.

As a result converted LinuxFromScratch partition to XFS as well

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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

ext3 on laptop / xfs on desktop. These damn polls need multiple options. Anywho, can i change ext3 to XFS?

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 4:14 am Post subject:

Beforegod · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:06 am Post subject:

i'm using XFS on my Workstation and on my Desktop System at home. Its very fast, scalable (on my work!) and the fsck is really(!!!) fast!

Ive never got an clean file system, but with xfs all works just fine! I remember reiserfs on RedHat and ext3 on SuSE.

After a long time all this fs were corrupted ! So XFS is the best fs for me!

Cheers,
Beforegod

abhishek · Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2002 11:58 pm Post subject:

I might be wrong, but i thouhgt ext3 = ext2+jpurnal so i dont see a reason why parted shouldnt work on an ext3 partitoin.

styzzo · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 2:06 am Post subject: hmm

After using ext2 for all of my 'linux career', i figured with Gentoo i would give ext3 a whirl. Seems okay, but I'm curious, does the journalling create more overhead? Also, is it possible to convert an existing ext3 filesystem to ReiserFS? I'm guessing no...

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fsck_ms · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

I tried ext3 when I first installed gentoo. That seemed pretty good, and I could still get at it with explore2fs in windows. I really like the quick fsck on xfs, so that's what I use now. I still keep music, etc on an ext3 partition so I can get at it in freebsd.
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