Lennart Sorensen wrote:
So my opinion is to use ext3 for it all. Then one repair tool is all you will ever need (and in my experience you are unlikely to really ever need that one tool either). The repair tools for reiserfs have historically been awful (in many cases making the problem worse rather than better), and the XFS tools have had a tendancy to require an insane amount of ram on larger filesystems which can make repairs very difficult unless you have a lot of ram if using a large drive.
Great advice, thanks a lot! This is just what I'm after.I'd be interested to hear whether other people have wildly different experiences... if not, then I'll probably just go with ext3 for all of it.
Also, is there any downside (performance-wise) to putting everything on one big partition? It seems to me that every time I try to design a "smart" partitioning scheme, it ends up being a pain in the ass. You end up with empty space in one partition and out of space in another. I could see the point of partitioning on older, single hard drives (taking into account where the partition is on the drive surface), but on a striped RAID setup that is surely kind of moot. The other benefit would be re-installing - if you have all your data on a separate partition then you don't have to move it off and then restore it. So does ext3 do ok on just one big 140 GB partition???
Thanks again, /Neil