Request comparison of relative strenths of the various journaling file systems

[Collins Richey]

On 09 Apr 2003 18:38:24 -0600
Ralph Sanford <rsanford at telusplanet.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 21:07, Mel Roman wrote:
> > "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> writes:
> > 
> > > >> XFS has been, and is available as a patch for 
> > > >> each released official kernel, both 2.4.x &
> > > >> 2.6.x. I've been running it on 2.4.20 since 
> > > >> 2.4.20 was released.
> > 
> > Thanks to everyone who have responded.  I would
> > have followed up earlier, but seemed to be having
> > problems connecting to the nntp server earlier.
> > 
> > Based on everything I've heard, I think I probably
> > want to go with XFS.  One things that's been pointed
> > out here is that I'll need to patch my kernel to 
> > support XFS.  In my experiments to date with 
> > Mandrake, I had left my / partition as ext2 and made
> > the others all ReiserFS (so that the ReiserFS 
> > partitions would be supported through modules).
> > 
> > I guess it's time I learned to compile my own
> > kernels.  Like everything else, I suppose it's 
> > easy once you know how.  I've never bothered to
> > do it up to this point (I'm an application developer,
> > not an OS techie).  Would anyone recommend a good
> > resource to guide me in my first attempts?  I'd 
> > rather avoid any unnecesary blunders.
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Mel
> 
> Not to start a flame/distro war and this proves I was not paying
> attention at the start of this thread.  SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 provide the
> option of selecting XFS out of the box.  I have been using it since
> SuSE 8.0 and it works, but my needs are only SOHO so the file system
> and the SuSE implementation of it has not been stressed.
> 

That's certainly not flame material.  My significant point in earlier
postings was the fact that it is a big ho-hum which journaling file
system the average linux desktop user opts to use.  They all work, and
they are all reasonably stable in the later 2.4.x kernels, which is not
to say that there aren't a few war stories assoicated with each choice. 
Most modern distros provide for any of these (ext3, reiser, xfs)
choices, although not always as a choice for the initial install.

-- 
Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3