Deanobear Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 After using linux for nearly 2 months now, I'm more than convinced I'll never go back to Xtremley Painful. Becoming more confident with it, I lashed out and bought Mandrake LE 2005, after trying a few different distros, I found that LE 2005 was perfect for what I wanted it for, great drivers, easy setup/update, etc. My intial setups were pretty much "vanilla" straight out of the box, I let the setup partition my hard drive on its own, thinking... It knows best. Then a few days ago I tried to extract an iso from a 2gig tar... well... pfffffffffffftttttttttt! I ran out of tmp space didn't I. Seems the default "/" partition is only 5gig or so, and the rest is for /home. I decided to do a complete reinstall and partition the HD to my own liking. I made my "/" partition 12gig and the rest for /home. I decided to use reiserfs instead of ext3 for both partitions. I found reiserfs to be noticably quicker. What's your fave FS for linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scaife Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I use ext3, but next time I find myself in need of something interesting to do to my computer, I'll probably switch to ReiserFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybl4ck Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ReiserFS :alien: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaNcom Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 It depends (surprise!) - but ReiserFS was the best choice: - EXT2: slow as hell (as in: almost as slow as FAT32), no journaling, but absolutely stable. - EXT3: basically EXT2 + journaling. Supposed to be quite stable and considerable faster then EXT2. - ReiserFS: Journaling FS designed from scratch for Linux. Very stable, fast and efficient, especially while handling lots of small files. Best stable overall filesystem. - XFS: A filesystem developed by Silicon Graphics for their proprietary IRIX OS. Very stable and extremely fast when handling only a few large files (databases, serious movie editing). - JFS: IBM's AIX filesystem, similar to XFS in terms of focus, stability and performance. - Reiser4: Namesys' latest and greatest filesystem. The worlds fastest, most secure, most extensible, most efficient and most powerful filesystem. The only truely atomic filesystem on the planet, and it sports a plugin architecture for transparent encryption, compression, stuff like that. It also features a unique way to handle metadata ("everything is a directory"-approach), which also plugin-based. But it's not yet considered stable and not included in the vanilla Linux kernel (in MM right now). I'd say it'll become usable in late 2005/ early 2006. On a side note: all FS's but EXT2 are faster than _any_ version of NTFS... There are many other filesystems on Linux, real and virtual ones, Minix, BFS, NFS, FUSE. But they are not an option, for different, obvious reasons. Still, FUSE is something to keep on the radar - it's a virtual user-space filesystem that allow you to mount pretty much anything as if it were a regular partition: ftp, sftp, WebDAV, GMail... And it's possible to use KDE's KIO architecture to add additional virtual filesystems (FISH, IMAP, POP3, NNTP, digital cameras, OBEX...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 7, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2005 [Poll Added] In theory, my favourite would probably Reiser4 but I'll wait until that is added as an install option rather than kludge something for my bootup volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitedragon Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ntfs on Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ntfs on Windows XP. 586027856[/snapback] Linux forum dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw|ildhat Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ReiserFS on my mainserver and Reiser4 on my testserver. Much faster and really awesome on a server with a lot of small files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted June 7, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2005 Call me "unadventurous", but ext3 does the job for me. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsquirle Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Call me "unadventurous", but ext3 does the job for me. (Y) 586027978[/snapback] lol, I'm still running on ext2 :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I'm using Reiser4 running SUSE Linux 9.3 and Reiser3, ext3, & ext2 on my Fedora system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 i use ext3, but maybe i'll switch to reiser when reiser4 comes out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintray98 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ReiserFS3 for my Ubuntu install and ext3 for all my storage needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I'm using ext3 simply because losing data scares me. I'll switch to Reiser4 when it's deemed worthy by the kernel monkeys, it looks pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 EXT3 for /home, Reiserfs for everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpd Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 ext3 here, why reinvent the wheel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miuku. Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Reiser all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted June 7, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2005 I use ext3, but next time I find myself in need of something interesting to do to my computer, I'll probably switch to ReiserFS. 586027698[/snapback] me too probably.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axls Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 ReiserFS on Slack for me. I doubt I'll be going anywhere near Reiser4 any time soon though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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