Best File System for a server?

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sall · Post by **sall** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:41 am

What would be the best file system for a server?

minor_prophets · Post by **minor_prophets** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:49 am

Greetins sall,

What's your server primarily going to be used for and on what kind of hardware?

sall · Post by **sall** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:25 am

Server will primarily be used for to store audio, documents, and as a print server as well.

pappy_mcfae · Post by **pappy_mcfae** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:29 am

I vote for reiserfs. I have yet to lose a file to it.

Blessed be!
Pappy

67comet · Post by **67comet** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:51 pm

With big files I stick with XFS; BUT only on reliable hardware and never as the /boot portion of my servers.

If it's an old hdd you plan to use, stick with reiserfs it's nice and tollerant of erronious hdd equipment.

Cyker · Post by **Cyker** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:03 pm

I'm running ext3 (But with the ext4 driver until ext4 itself is more stable).

3TB, no problems.

I just like ext3 because I know if I run into a problem, almost every Linux bootCD on the planet will be guaranteed to be able to read/fsck it.

minor_prophets · Post by **minor_prophets** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:46 pm

Ext2/etx3 on /boot

Ditto on what pap say's regarding reiserfs on most of your other partitions.

I've also yet to have data disappear from XFS on software RAID1. I've recommend XFS for your media storage partitions as it seems to handle large file sizes well in my experience.

Hardware-wise, what do you have in mind?

Modula · Post by **Modula** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:07 pm

I'm running two small servers at home with reiserfs on software raid-1 for more than three years and it's very stable.