which file system to use

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 4 17:16:39 UTC 2006


Alexander Skwar wrote:

> · Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com>:
>> On 8/4/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>>> · David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
> 
>>> > 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

Ow!  Hoist with your own petard :-)
> 
> Okay, I should have asked differently. My fault. David, which
> advantages do YOU see in ZFS and RAID-Z, especially compared to
> JFS or reiserfs?

But gracefully accepted ...

I'm interested too.  Having seen, in this thread, suggestion that there's
nothing better - right now - than EXT3, which I found hazardous to my
system and slow, and recent raves for JFS, I'm beginning to wonder.  Reiser
has been much better to me than EXT ever was.
-- 
derek





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