[ubuntu-in] Which is the best filesystem to use??

["Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्ह]

Fabian Enos wrote:
> I need to know what is the best one to use for managing my documents
> and stuff. I also have files > 1GB in size so there should be almost
> or 0% chance of data corruption. Speed is also required.
>   

Which FS do you use presently? I have used JFS once and didn't find it 
so tempting to stick forever.
Apart from JFS, ext3 and reiserfs are the two others which I have used.

Reiserfs: Extremely fast, the fastest I have ever seen, just that there 
are lots of criticisms about its data corruption. It is said that once 
the filesystem becomes corrupt and internal tree is unstable, then 
trying to improve it ever damages it furthur. Well, I havn't come across 
such a situation.
Reiserfs also faces some criticism that due to some delayed write 
phenomenon, data corruption occours. i don't know much about the exact 
technical terminology relating to it.
As of now, I wont shift to any other filesystem. I could never have 
thought that deleting a file of size 650MB can take only 2-3 secs.

When it comes to data corruption, I never faced it till now. It happened 
only once, that too in JFS ( whole filesystem became unusable, probably 
due to my mistake )

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