Best filesystem to use for a specific type of application

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Greg Zeng <gregzeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> imo http://www.phoronix.com seems to pretend that NTFS does not exist.
>  Personally I use M$ Win7-64 NTFS-compressed partitions.  The sector
> size can also be flexible.
>
> I assume that you want journalling as well (not available in Ext2;
> BTRFS & Reiser are still aphaware)?  If you use compression in the
> file system, there are fewer hard-drice accesses.  Not sure if RAID,
> SSD would assist.  One advantage of NTFS is the ability to defrag the
> HDD (not needed for SSD drives).  Grudgingly, Linux seems to admit
> that magnetic drives have fragmentation & speed access variations.
>
> Benchmarks (independent) on NTFS show that defrag greatly speeds HDD
> access.  There are urls which independently confirm this).

Not wanting to start an argument here, however AFAIK, NTFS has no
ability "to defrag the HDD", it just gets badly fragmented, and a user
defragmentation application/service is available to defrag it. Also it
takes a lot of time to perform a filesystem check.

NTFS is a 1993-era filesystem. I suggest the OP use ext4 instead,
unless he has some very specific needs, like reading the filesystem
under Windows.


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