Back, After to get all informations i received, i put them in table as follow: see attachment file. Specialists can they tell me if they agree with my conclusions ? Thank's for your good job. Fabien. -- Fabien COMBERNOUS - IT Engineer eProcess - Parc Club du Millénaire Batiment n° 6 1025 rue Henri Becquerel - 34000 Montpellier FRANCE http://www.eprocess.fr - +33 (0)4 67 13 84 50
+------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Features \ fs | xfs | ext3 | jfs | reiserfs | Comments | +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | mmutable | N | Y | Y | Y | "Y" is not with same sens. Implementation is not same. Each one permit | | append-only | | | | | some elements that other don't permit and reverse. xfs will have | | | | | | | implementation in futur. | +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | quotas | Y | Y | Y | Y | Again "Y" is not aqual. ext3 accept quota only on data-journaled | | | | | | | filesystems, but all other journaled filesystem don't have data journal| | | | | | | About reiserfs you need Chris patches. +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NFS | Y | Y | Y | Y | nfs works on all of them. You need at least reiserfs v3.6. +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | samba | Y | Y | Y | Y | Since Samba is userspace, the fs shouldn't matter (2.2.4 or 2.2.5) | +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | coda | coda is a file sys him self | / / / / | +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |data journal | N | Y | N | N | Only ext3 can take care of data by a data journal. All other journaled | | | | | | | file systems have "only" a metadata journal. | +------------------+-----+------+-----+----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
