ext3 vs. reiserFS

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 12, Harry G managed to emit:
> I am going to be setting up a new workstation, probably with Suse.  I 
> have a little experience with ext 3 file system (OK so far) but are 
> there any advantages of one over the other?  File integrity is the 
> prime consideration, as apposed to speed.

For me, XFS wins hands down. It has the most mature code base,
because it's been in use on SGI's high performance workstations for
years. I understand JFS is also solid, but have no personal
experience with it. I've also used ext3 and have had no problems *so
far* with data corruption.  In descending order of preference based
on my own experience:

XFS
ext3
ext2

That said, allow me to recommend a book, "Linux Filesystems," written
by William von Hagen. It was written with a 2.4.9 kernel in mind, but the
issues should be the same. He covers all of the major and some of the
minor filesystems available for Linux. He also covers distributed
filesystems (OpenAFS and NFS come to mind), Netware, Samba, Netatalk
logical volume management, how to perform benchmarking for your
environment, and so on. Great book -- I've just started reading my 
(personally autographed) copy, but I can already see that it will be 
a keeper.

Kurt
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