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XFS or ReiserFS?

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DatHak512

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I'm trying to decide which file system to use in my linux storage box. Any suggestions? I know XFS is better if you're using a redundant power supply, but i don't have one, and doubt i will for the next few years, being as that i wouldn't have enough room in my dorm room at college for one. Are the differences in scalability really worth the dangers of write-back?
 
XFS + UPS would be my recommendation for anything over 500G.
 
Dew: Cool, thanks for the info. What makes XFS that much better than ReiserFS for large partitions?
 
Mount time, for one. XFS mounts much, much faster.

And the recommendation is an UPS, not a redundant power supply.

 
unhappy_mage said:
And the recommendation is an UPS, not a redundant power supply.
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It won't hurt to have a redundant power supply.
 
I'll second the vote for no reiserfs on something possibly in the TB range. I didn't properly research that, and my ~900 gig raid 5 array took a while (5-15 minutes, i never timed it, but it was a dern long time) to mount up.

Now that I've exceeded the TB threshold, I'm probably gonna go back to the old steady ext3
 
I don't like ReiserFS because it has drastically different performance characteristics than other filesystems and hence misleads developers into writing software that can potentially perform badly

Even the FreeBSD guys love XFS so it's a good chance it's actually good.

Personally I use ext3fs even for big arrays because more OSes can read the data off it.
 
XFS hands-down. I 2nd the notion of experience with slow mounting on large arrays. 1.8tb array is split into 2 big partitions, both XFS. One was reiser but I couldn't handle it.
 
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