On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:26 , Spencer Russell <Spencer.Russell@xxxxxxxxxxx> sent: >On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:12:04AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:11:57 -0800, Barton Bosch wrote: >> > I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and >> > am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files. >> > >> > It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk >> > Druid). How is an XFS partition added? Does anyone here have any >> > experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2? >> >> I experiments with JFS and XFS some time ago, and thier performance for >> media files (or a relativly slow disk) wasn't that good compared to ext3. >> >> Things may have changed of course. >> >> - Steve > >I've heard good things about reiser4, it's supposed to be faster >than anything out there right now. I don't know anything about >it's stability, though. Is anyone using reiser4? I'm using >reiserFS for my main system partitions right now, and I haven't >had any problems with it. > A word of warning. There was a post by Andrew Morton a while back that said not to use Reiser with 2.6. It's fine with 2.4 (what I use in fact). It may be fixed with 2.6 but I haven't heard anything new. I use XFS on all of my 2.6 systems (FC3) and it is indeed *much* faster than ext3. Jan
