FileSystems

seanos

I have been reading lately into Filesystems, and wondering if people can give their thoughts [or good - impartial sites ?].
I've seen speed benchmarks, and various other benchmarks, and Resier/JFS seems to come out on top each time, ext2/3 seems to come out towards the bottom for each test, usually.

I'm half thinking of moving to Resier [building few servers in week or so], and wondering what the downside is, so to speak ?
Every site I've gone to for reviews etc, seems to speak highly of Reiser - without listing any bad points.

ext2 is grand, but I want journaling, and ext3 + quota's not the best ...
Reiser afaik doesn't break quota's.
I'd regard quota's as essential.

Any suggestions would be nice - I will not move to Reiser4, as still testing etc.

I know types of files etc come into play here; what I'll be running on server : mail/apache/fileserver/tomcat [*cough* thats a whole new thread]/mysqld/various PHP stuff/+++
Servers will be handling upwards of 50-100 people, so will need room for expansion & running extra services/new role's ... so FS would have to be pretty versitile.
I would expect majority of files would be smallish in size, with not too many large files.

Any further details, just ask,

Regards,

Sean

slartibardfast

reiserfs relies on external patches for quota support, which I don't like for two reasons these patches are less tested and second the waiting for them to be sync'd with the latest kernels,

Go for XFS it's almost as fast as reiser3.6 (apart from while deleting), much faster than ext3 and it's quota support and acl support is excellent.

seanos

Thanks for your opinion, will continue trying to gather data while waiting for few more opinions - could be nice debate

nadir

im still using journalised ext2. I may give xfs a go on my next machine. Ive been hearing bad things about reiserfs lately, although that was with a sun machine.

vigos

this months Linux Format has a good article on filesystems, including benchmarks and their suitability towards differents systems i.e. server,desktop etc

seanos

Yes, which I have & read.
I don't believe there is enough detail there, which inspired this thread

fragile

Reiser4 has just been released, there is a discussion about it over on OSnews.com, it is claimed that it is the fastest filesystem

slartibardfast

it *is* the fastest, and it most likely will become the *safest* (hello atmoic fs!)
But at the moment it is unusable as it doesn't have quota support, yet!

I use reiser4 for a games partition for NWN load times , been very reilable too!

dubhthach

XFS, then again been an IRIX user i'm biased

leeroybrown

Having run XFS on both my desktop machine and a busy server for the last few months I have to say that it's excellent.