Which filesystem should I use

[Simon Burke]

On 4/10/05, Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
 I have a decent specced file server running at present and heres how
i set it up:

/boot =ext2 (for a boot partition theres no need for a journaled filesystem)

/ = ext3

/tmp = ramdisk (its faster and arguably more secure)

/storage = jfs (I have used xfs for a fair while but it doesnt like
powercuts or anything, you tend to loose some data, where as jfs is
slightly quicker and I havnt had any problems with it as of yet.

/home = jfs too, but that is only because having so many filesystems
on one box is not really a good idea.
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Thanks,
SimonB

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