[H-GEN] ext2 or ext3

[Robert Brockway]

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On 19 Jun 2002, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> That said, I've had *great* experience with XFS and will be using it
> as the basis for my filesystem when I reinstall after moving.

My personal favourite for its innovation is Reiserfs.  Having said this 
there have been intermittent reports of corruption under some kernels.  
This was reported on the Reiserfs list & is being (has been?) dealt with.  
It was only specific kernels under specific situations but sure scared me 
:)

I think XFS definately has alot of promise in Linux land.  In Irix land it 
has a long & robust history (it is a couple of years older than ex2).

To me, the biggest plus of ext3 is the easy upgrade path for ext2 
filesystems.

In Linux land, we might not ever end up with a defacto standard like ext2
again, as all the new filesystems have promise.  I tend to think that 
Reiserfs will come out at the most popular overall within the next couple 
of years.  It is a Linux native FS rather than being a ported FS and has 
alot of innovation that developers will find interesting.

I'm actually setup now to do some filesystem tests - I'll be making the
same area of disk under different filesystems & testing performance.  
Mainly as an interest thing as so many of the tests seen have conflicting
results.  At least this way I'll be measuring performance on my own system
:)

Cheers,
	-Rob

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