[Tfug] Filesystem suggestion

[Ammon Lauritzen]

(Looks like RHEL6 will be using ext4 by default and will ship with xfs
as an option).

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Will Stott <will at stottland.net> wrote:
> I use ufs plus. Go figure...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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