Re: Which FS to use ?
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On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 07:11, Willem.Smit@sanlam.co.za wrote:
> Hey guys (are there any girls on this list - hmm)
> Which filesystem would you recommend for a biggish (10 gig) partition ? At
> the moment I'm using Ext2fs and I really have to use something else, it's
> just way to slow. So should i use Reiser or Ext3fs ? Or is there maybe
> another fs I can use ?
>
Personally
On my systems at home, I have a root partition that is ext3, everything else
is on lvm as a reiserfs partion
Why?
Because I can boot the root partition from a floppy disk and fix disasters as
an ext2 partition but uses ext3 as some protection for unplanned shutdown
(power failure), but
lvm + reiserfs gives comparable performance but great flexibility in creating
and destroying partions (lvm) and ability to on-line resize (reiserfs -
increase only - you have to unmount to decrease). Also reiserfs can pack
small files into a single block - as I reckon I have loads of these improves
utilisation (although actually at the moment I have loads spare in my logical
volumes).
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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