which file system to use

Al Gordon runlevel7 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 16:52:04 UTC 2006


On 8/4/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> ยท David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
>
> > Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >> Just for the record, I prefer to have a balance of stability and
> >> performance--but I hold stability in much higher regard than
> >> performance. For this reason, I decided to continue using the tried
> >> and true ext3 file system. It's been around a long time, has a proven
> >> track record of reliability, and has robust and feature rich file
> >> system tools.
> >>
> >> Some of the other file systems have promise, but none really came
> >> close to ext3 when looking at the big picture.
> >
> > ZFS is coming to Linux.
>
> Well, if it comes as "fast" to Linux, as it came to Solaris, then
> I wouldn't hold my breathe if I were you...
>
> Care to explain the advantages of ZFS and RAID-Z?

google zfs

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