What filesystem do you use?

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Bulkley · #16 Post by **Bulkley** » 2007-06-09 15:41

I installed with Reiserfs back when everyone else was using Ext2. Reiserfs has never disappointed me. I live in an area that can suffer power failures (usually in winter) and Reiserfs always recovers.

gmedina · #17 Post by **gmedina** » 2007-06-09 15:55

ben · #18 Post by **ben** » 2007-06-09 17:45

Ext3/JFS2

DeanLinkous · #19 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2007-06-09 17:47

damn I AM the only one that still uses ext2

esaym · #20 Post by **esaym** » 2007-06-10 13:17

I like ext3. I really want to play with the external journaling options that it has but I don't have room in my case to add another hard drive

I thought about maybe using a usb stick for the external journal but I am not sure if the throughput would be high enough. Can anyone comment? Also I would have to make sure the usb stick is mounted before the hard drives I am guessing. Not sure if debian mounts ubs first or what on boot up.....

llivv · #21 Post by **llivv** » 2007-06-10 17:21

hkoster1 · #22 Post by **hkoster1** » 2007-06-10 17:34

<---- JFS (if only to morally support IBM in their legal fight with SCO).

Jackiebrown · #23 Post by **Jackiebrown** » 2007-06-10 20:17

sonic6k wrote:Am I the only one using bleeeeeeding edge stuff?

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux Experimental
Desktop Environment: KDE 4 Alpha 1
Filesystem: ext4dev

Did you bootstrap your Debian install? I am trying to think of another way short of (possibly) remastering the Debian install CD.

sonic6k · #24 Post by **sonic6k** » 2007-06-10 20:22

Jackiebrown wrote:
sonic6k wrote:Am I the only one using bleeeeeeding edge stuff?

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux Experimental
Desktop Environment: KDE 4 Alpha 1
Filesystem: ext4dev
Did you bootstrap your Debian install? I am trying to think of another way short of (possibly) remastering the Debian install CD.

Yes I remastered the Debian CD. Was very hard and a lot of trial and error, but it's worth the effort.

ghostdawg · #25 Post by **ghostdawg** » 2007-06-10 21:04

Ext3 for all my partitions. I try out different distros so the others need to stay compatible if I need to mount them from within another.

actionM · #26 Post by **actionM** » 2007-06-10 21:22

Ext3, but only because I don't know what the difference is

AgenT · #27 Post by **AgenT** » 2007-06-10 22:04

actionM wrote:Ext3, but only because I don't know what the difference is

To sum up: you should use ext3 unless you have a good reason not to. You should also not consider "speed" as the only factor in choosing a filesystem, just like you would not consider "speed" as the only factor in deciding what car to buy.

Nevertheless, here are some pages of interest:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/l-afig-p8.xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

actionM · #28 Post by **actionM** » 2007-06-11 00:29

Thanx for the read. I drive a slow car.

Bulkley · #29 Post by **Bulkley** » 2007-06-11 00:29

It might be interesting to have a parallel poll about whether or not users actually chose their filesystem or whether they just accepted their distro default.

Noven · #30 Post by **Noven** » 2007-06-11 02:06

I just dont like how long it takes to format 4 partitions in ext3 during install...when XFS or JFS take like 2 seconds to format each partition. That and l337 d00dz use XFS/JFS/ReiserFS

Bro.Tiag · #31 Post by **Bro.Tiag** » 2007-06-11 03:11

<--------------- (other) what ever the distro default is.

sinical · #32 Post by **sinical** » 2007-06-11 03:44

im surprised at the lack of xfs love

Noven · #33 Post by **Noven** » 2007-06-11 04:54

sinical wrote:im surprised at the lack of xfs love

Yea concidering its been getting alot of hype lately.

Optional · #34 Post by **Optional** » 2007-06-11 07:04

I use it only because it sounds cool.

Oh, and it's supposedly impossible to undelete files from (all my disks are encrypted anyways, so that's a moot point though).

987687 · #35 Post by **987687** » 2007-06-11 23:18

I use Ext3 now, but my external hard drive is formatted with hfsplus because its shared with macosx. and osx won't mount ext3... But I'm getting a new computer after the summer and I don't know what I'm going to use. I am thinking XFS or JFS, I will have to do more research on that. Or maybe ext4, I'll have to see what happens over the summer.