Which filesystem should I use

[Darryl Clarke]

On Apr 10, 2005 6:04 PM, Joakim Nordberg <joakim at nordberg.org> wrote:
> 
> >>I'm planning for my new Ubuntuserver. And I''m wondering if you know
> >>which filesystem is the fastet, most stable and so on.
> >>I'm having mostly Officefiles, pictures.

[snip]

> Stick to the default. Well it does normally works fine, but ext3 kan be
> quite slow, booth using and mounting.
> 

For a server, which I hope you don't reboot often, I don't see how a
few seconds difference on a mount between (Reiser|X|ext3)FS is really
even a consideration.  The only time I really find ext3 slow is when
there are hundreds upon hundreds of files in a single directory.

There are many documents comparing the three (and others) in different
scenarios.

I personally stick to ext3 for my root, usr, boot.  Depending on what
is actually being done with the server I'll sometimes use ReiserFS for
/var and /home - but usually just ext3.

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