Soliciting Opinions Regarding File Systems

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:58:13 -0500
>From: "Jim Canfield" <jcanfield at tshmail.com>  
>
>Sean McGlynn wrote:
>>  
>> We are considering what file system to use for an 
>> enterprise deployment of Linux.  We're reviewing EXT3, 
>> Reiser, XFS, and JFS.  The server will deal with a fair 
>I second XFS.  While it's not an enterprise example - I use 
<snip>
XFS/LVM at 
>home to store all my DVDs (3-5gig files)and have no problems.  
>Considering the file system is a very mature and handles large files 
>well I think it's a no brainer.

I've started a home system on Reiser, since that's what the default is with SuSE, and I've been *very* pleased, since my wife's (not old!) m/b looks to be failing (we won't talk about the literal lightening strike on the house, and the older UPS it was on...), but the damn thing freezes, sometimes several times a day, sometimes not for days. I can *not* get her to log off every night, and so she'll have many windows up with OO, kmail, and konqueror, and when it does freeze, the *only* way out is the hardware reset switch. She's lost almost nothing, and all the windows come back up, all documents are recovered, etc.

So, take that as a rather severe test of robustness of Reiser.

    mark