Re: default file system?

[Harald Thingelstad <harald@skolelinux.no>]

tirsdag 11. mai 2004, 23:29, skrev Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Andreas Schuldei]
>
> > what are our criteria? reliability is certainly high up on the list,
> > but speed and low cpu usage are important, too.
>
> Actually, performance was not considered when selecting default file
> system.  Here are some of the factors I considered:
..

I don't think this is the thing to change in Skolelinux right now. 
These things have been known for a long time, so it'd be odd if interest 
caught up now.

Later, perhaps.
Personally, I'd like to see how Reiser4 fares, as it promises even better 
speed and has full crash recovery. (Build new directory tree from file 
information only.) Reiser4 is also a revised version of Reiserfs (v3) where 
they've changed some tree algoritms and so on, but it's not a full rebuild.
Right now, it undergoes the kind of meticulous testing Reiser3 didn't (which 
gave it a bad first impression), then it's time for acceptance into the main 
kernel.

If a disk with Reiserfs crashes now, data recovery could prove difficult. 
Other journalling systems like XFS and JFS has less history with the Linux 
kernel than Reiser3 has, and show more bugs.

Some have also talked about distributed filesystems, like AFS. Could be great 
too, but later.

Harald