Tyler wrote: > Ewan Grantham wrote: > >I've just setup a nice, 6-disk, USB-2 300 Gig/disk array, and was > >prepared to follow my normal pattern of installing ext3 as the > >filesystem. However, I saw the interview with Hans Reiser about > >ReiserFS4, and am now wondering if reiser has really improved enough > >to use it, or if ext3 is still the way to go? > > You'd be best off trying some tests of your own, using files of the size > and quantity you expect to use on a regular basis. I would consider > ext3, xfs, and reiser3/4... and run some tests with them. We've had > really good luck using XFS on large raids, I personally had a bad > experience with reiserfs 3, it lost data on a USB based drive, as if it > were never even there, even after trying the recovery tools. Don't touch anything that doesn't do ordered-mode journaling, especially if you use raid, unless your data-consistency requirements don't require this. XFS is best, but does not support ordered-mode. reiser4 is still new. ext3 is rock-solid! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
