EXT 2 vs EXT3 vs ReiserFS etc..
Bas van Besouw
really interested in the journaling part or whatever other
advantages... PURE SPEED for desktop use.
Thanks in advance
Bas
Joost Kremers
> Which Filesystem is the fastest in terms of everyday use. I'm not
> really interested in the journaling part or whatever other
> advantages... PURE SPEED for desktop use.
i'm not sure it really matters *that* much. one consideration could be the
journal: it makes booting after a hard crash much much faster. fsck on a
multi-gigabyte disk with a non-journalling fs can take quite some time.
FWIW some people have said that reiser cannot be trusted: they complain
about unexplained data corruption and loss. OTOH i've been using reiser for
about two years now and have never seen anything wrong with it.
i have also heard the same people say that ext3 is somewhat slower than
reiser (because ext3 has to remain backward compatible with ext3) but that
they prefer ext3 because it has a good set of recovery tools. (that is, all
the tools written for ext2 can be used with ext3.)
perhaps a google search will tell you more.
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Keith Keller
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In article <9ba92a68.03030...@posting.google.com>, Bas van Besouw wrote:
> Which Filesystem is the fastest in terms of everyday use. I'm not
> really interested in the journaling part or whatever other
> advantages... PURE SPEED for desktop use.
Why are you asking us? Did you search the web site of the tool you
used to post your message? I found a few benchmarks in a matter
of seconds.
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Bartosz Oudekerk
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On the dark and fateful day, Fri, 07 Mar 2003 at 18:07 GMT,
Joost Kremers spewed forth the following rhetoric:
> (because ext3 has to remain backward compatible with ext3)
I kind of guessed that ;) Would be surprised if it weren't so.
> perhaps a google search will tell you more.
>
A google search *always* tells you more. (even about stuff you don't
want to know about)
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Alan Hicks
> FWIW some people have said that reiser cannot be trusted: they complain
> about unexplained data corruption and loss. OTOH i've been using reiser for
> about two years now and have never seen anything wrong with it.
IMO, reiserfs is the best of the three. I've been using it since
Slackware 8.1 shipped with 2.4.5, and other than one problem with the
2.4.5 kernel (which had to be patched for reiserfs use), I've never had
any trouble. It boots cleanly, holds a wonderful journal, and runs faster
than ext2 and ext3 in my experience as a desktop user. The performance
boost is mostly negligable though, untill you start hitting the drive
constantly as one might with a database box or something similar. For
desktop use, the difference is noticeable, but negligable.
I prefer reiserfs to jfs or xfs 'cause just about any distribution ships a
kernel with support for it, so if a box I'm working on dies (say the
motherboard blows), I can transfer the drive into another linux box and
recover the data without patching a kernel and compiling it.
Just my $0.02.
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Jack S. Lai
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Alan Hicks did go forth to post:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:07:54 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>> FWIW some people have said that reiser cannot be trusted: they complain
>> about unexplained data corruption and loss. OTOH i've been using reiser
>> for about two years now and have never seen anything wrong with it.
>
> IMO, reiserfs is the best of the three. I've been using it since
> Slackware 8.1 shipped with 2.4.5, and other than one problem with the
> 2.4.5 kernel (which had to be patched for reiserfs use), I've never had
> any trouble. It boots cleanly, holds a wonderful journal, and runs faster
I tried to use it and experienced data corruption using Slackware 9 when it
first came out and recently (last week) I tried again. I guess it might be
a hardware issue as I see alot of reports of no problems.
Fortunately, both times I just lost system information (for instance stuff
in /usr/lib) and so lost nothing I couldn't recover from going back to
ext3.
To the OP, if you try reiserfs, I suggest doing so on a limited basis until
you can determine stability. Then you can commit important data to the
filesystem.
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