Re: Linux 2.4 future

[Mike Fedyk]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:24:20PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> <OT>
> As a datapoint i'm running ext2, reiserfs, JFS and XFS each
> for different reasons.
> 
> 	ext2 -- boot (i'm stodgy) and 2kb blocks for archive CDs
> 
> 	reiserfs3 -- filesystems not exported nfs (no
> 	historical version level that i can confirm whether
> 	i have or not will namesys assert is reliable over
> 	nfs)
> 

Maybe you should just try it?  I've used reiserfs on an NFS/samba server,
and it didn't give me trouble.

> 	jfs -- most nfs exported filesystems, decent
> 	performance and solid but i don't use if for home
> 	because in SuSE's 2.4.18 (i know it is ancient but
> 	solid for me) jfs doesn't update mtime of
> 	directories unless the block allocation changes
> 	breaking maildir update detection.

This has been fixed in newer versions of JFS though, right?

> 	xfs -- home (because of the jfs bug) Earlier tests
> 	of xfs gave me horrible performance and i haven't
> 	gotten around to testing since then.  If this is
> 	fixed without tuning i might drop jfs.  Then again i
> 	may drop xfs in the next upgrade if i change distros
> 	and xfs isn't in-kernel.

What about ext3?  I tend to prefer ext3 since I know how it works more than
the others, and it puts data integrity ahead of performance, which is the
way things should be (TM).

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