[Tfug] Filesystem suggestion

[Will Stott]

I use ufs plus. Go figure...

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On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:11 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>  
wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> First, to Malcolm's "hell" response: very well said.  To the point  
> without
> being insulting.
>
>
> Anyway, for something OT (that's On Topic this time)... I'm looking  
> for some
> real world suggestions for a filesystem to use on my desktop PC.
>
> For many years now I've been using XFS.  It's rock solid, threaded  
> (so I've
> read) and apparently fast.  Only once since I've been using it have  
> I ever had
> an filesystem corruption, and that was after an abrupt power outage  
> caused by,
> of all things, my UPS.  It's log does not guarantee data integrity,  
> but it's
> very good at keeping the filesystem from being hosed.  I also very  
> much enjoy
> never ever having to fsck the system, because it's always doing  
> minor checks
> to make sure the FS is sound.
>
> At the time I began using XFS, it was by far the most advanced.  But  
> now?
> I've seen many benchmarks, and it still ranks well, but I'm looking  
> for some
> real world uses here.  What do you use?  What do you have to compare  
> it with
> and how well does it work?
>
> The situation:  Very shortly now I will be upgrading my desktop PC.   
> Part of
> that entails replacing my small several year old SATA drive with two  
> 1TB SATA
> (running at either SATA2 or 3 speeds) in a RAID-0 striping  
> configuration.  I'm
> mostly just looking for speed and a snappy system.  Backing up of  
> data is done
> by putting things on my file server which has a nice RAID-5 array  
> running
> right now, plus any copies I've made elsewhere or uploaded to other  
> machines.
> So I'm not too worried that this configuration will cause doom.  I'm  
> probably
> going to use the old drive as a backup drive, as well, since I have  
> an easy to
> use eSATA harddrive dock on my desk.
>
> Of course, I don't *need* 2TB of space.  I suppose I could get the  
> same read
> performance from a RAID-1 array, correct?  That's doable too.
>
> So, what would you suggest for filesystem and drive arrangement?   
> BTW, even
> those most every MB has some sort of RAID "hardware" on it, I'll  
> just be using
> the Linux kernel RAID as I'm familiar with it and it works fine,  
> even though
> it means that my small Windows partition won't be able to partake of  
> the RAID
> speed up.  Everything I've ever read on this list says those MB RAID  
> solutions
> are not very good (although if anybody has something to say contrary  
> to that,
> I'd like to hear that, too).
>
>
> -- 
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