Re: Journaling file system
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Does anyone know if there is a workable journaling file system for
> Debian yet?
* reiserfs - it's a mostly-journalling file system, and should be quite
stable (can't quite bring myself to use it on my own systems. Some on
debian-user have used with with good success, however).
* ext3 - full journalling extensions onto ext2. It's been used to good
effect on some high-volume sites (www.rpmfind.net for one). Sadly, the
patches for 2.2.16 are RedHat- specific :(. The patches for
2.2.17preXX should be more generic. I have the archive if you want it.
* jfs - The journaling file system from IBM's AIX. The patches are
still very much alpha - don't even think about it if you're not running
Linux on i386. It reportedly works well, though.
* xfs - The journaling file system from SGI's Irix. Haven't heard how
well it works.
Note that out of all of these, only reiserfs has been ported to the
2.4.0-testX series.
Even so, it's nice to have choices, isn't it :)
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