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What filesystem do you use?

Off-Topic discussions about science, technology, and non Debian specific topics.

What filesystem do you use?

ext2
1
2%
ext3
45
69%
XFS
4
6%
JFS
7
11%
ReiserFS
6
9%
other
2
3%
 
Total votes: 65

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#21 Post by llivv »

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#22 Post by hkoster1 »

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

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#23 Post by Jackiebrown »

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.

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#24 Post by sonic6k »

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.

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#25 Post by ghostdawg »

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.
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#26 Post by actionM »

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

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#27 Post by AgenT »

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

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#28 Post by actionM »

Thanx for the read. I drive a slow car.

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#29 Post by Bulkley »

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.

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#30 Post by Noven »

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 :D

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#31 Post by Bro.Tiag »

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

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#32 Post by sinical »

im surprised at the lack of xfs love
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#33 Post by Noven »

sinical wrote:im surprised at the lack of xfs love
Yea concidering its been getting alot of hype lately.

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#34 Post by Optional »

I use it only because it sounds cool. :D

Oh, and it's supposedly impossible to undelete files from (all my disks are encrypted anyways, so that's a moot point though).
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ext3

#35 Post by 987687 »

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.

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Re: ext3

#36 Post by Bulkley »

987687 wrote: . . . I will have to do more research on that.
Yes, do the research. Consider several partitions with two or more file systems, depending upon advantage.

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#37 Post by hrsetrdr »

Ext3. Any compelling reason to use the others?
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