Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems
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On Monday 24 April 2006 11:02, Rick Friedman
<rickfriedman@verizon.net> was heard to say:
> Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / &
> /home. Each partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of
> changing filesystems (just to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a
> typical home user's system.
Personally, I don't see how file system choices are "off-topic", since
a Linux based Debian system has some wonderful flexibility where file
system is concerned, and everyone has to make this decision at some
point even if that decision is go with the "default".
Filesystems (ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS) comparison on Debian Etch
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
The external links on the Wikipedia entry are useful for benchmarking,
the "comparison" is feature comparison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say,
FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add
journaling, which is why I also use ext3, but with the caveat that
ext3 is just an add-on to ext2. Performance demonstrates this.
If I were to decide on something more than just ext3, I think I would
go with ReiserFS "just because". It seems quite flexible, and while
it does require a periodic "defragmentation", well, such is life.
Ext2/3 doesn't require defragmentation, but they are also not as
optimized in their performance. There are always trade-offs.
Hope this helps,
Curt-
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