What filesystems for my server?

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iverasp · Post by **iverasp** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:21 pm

Hi. I have just convinced my dad that Linux as the server OS actually can work, and also work a lot better than the Win2k setup we have now

. Now I need to convert all my NTFS disk to another filesystem. It's 4 different drives, a 160Gb, 120Gb, 80Gb, and a 40Gb. I've organized them so that one drive is for music only (Mp3's), one's for video-files, one's for software, pictures and documents, and the fourth for stuff like webpages, storage for my diskless PCs, backup etc.

Am I getting it right if I make the music-drive ReiserFS v3.6 'cos of the many smaller files, the video-drive XFS 'cos of the larger files, and the rest also ReiserFS v3.6? Or can someone make a better suggestion? I've read a couple of filesystem benchmarks, but can't really come to a conclusion.

Thanks!

mathgeek · Post by **mathgeek** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:33 pm

I have updated to Reiser4 and it works painlessly. So why not use it? It is supposed to be faster, however I'm unable to do a fruitful comparison.

iverasp · Post by **iverasp** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:48 pm

Isn't Reiser4 still beta?

mathgeek · Post by **mathgeek** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:52 pm

Actually, I don't know. I have it on my notebook since last October with no problems at all. I used mm-sources to build my kernel so I didn't have to patch the kernel manually - it just worked!

Enlight · Post by **Enlight** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:57 pm

Actually only 2 (journalised) FS are really considered as stable : ext3 and XFS, I love the second one.

reiser4 on a server is a _nonsense_

iverasp · Post by **iverasp** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:00 pm

Hmm. How is the speed of XFS compared to ReiserFS?

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:27 pm

Ext3.