[NTLUG:Discuss] [Bulk] Re: ext3 waste disk spaces then Windows ME?

[Chris Cox]

John Jeffers wrote:
> At 06:19 AM 30-04-06, you wrote:
>> On 4/29/06, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>>> Terry wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> Until such time as someone convences me that ReiserFS is as reliable
>>>> and problem free as ext3 I'm sticking with tried and proven ext3.
>>>> (Hard drives are cheap, I'm not all that concerned about wasting 5%).
>>> And who proved that ext3 was reliable?  Sorry... but the logic
>>> is nonsense.
> 
> Actually someone has done some research.......
> 
> Distrowatch Weekly 24 April
> 
> Debian:
> 
> "Do you also hesitate every time you need to choose a journalled file 
> system while installing a Linux distribution? If so, you might find 
> it interesting to read the 
> <http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388>File system 
> comparison on Debian 'etch', as published by 
> <http://www.debian-administration.org/>Debian-Administration.org. In 
> it, Hans Ivers provides a number of benchmarks to evaluate the 
> performance on ext3, JFS, ReiserFS and XFS file systems. And the 
> winner? Perhaps surprisingly, it's the less well-known and relatively 
> rarely used XFS: "While recognizing the relative merits of each file 
> system, a system administrator has no choice but to install only one 
> file system on his servers. Based on all testing done for this 
> benchmark essay, XFS appears to be the most appropriate file system 
> to install on a file server for home or small-business needs." Read 
> the full <http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388>article here. "

At the time I did my work comparing them, XFS wasn't quite baked yet
(had some issues).  XFS has always been the filesystem to wait for...
and now that it is here, perhaps it is an excellent choice.

Btw, my findings agree with the findings in the article with regards
to the low CPU utilization characteristics of JFS.  We went with
reiserfs because it was it was very fast on some operations and not
terribly far off the mark on others, and what we really liked was
the ability to resize filesystems on the fly (while still mounted).
Which at the time we did our tests, only reiserfs could do this.