I've seen some retorts to the linuxgazette.net report from the Reiser4 fans, basically explaining that Reiser makes better use of unused CPU cycles and that the single PIII 500 is not likely to reflect a production system of today. Ed is correct on the EXT3 being the only supported FS from the Redhat kernel. You would need to roll your own kernel. Personally, I don't like the EXT3 system are large volumes, especially if there is a crash, you have to wait a very long time for a FSCK to complete--and with a production server, that's a lot of people breathing down your neck asking, "Is it up yet?" My preference, keep in mind I'm only running Redhat on my Oracle servers and otherwise use Debian, is to use JFS. Unfortunately, I don't have many tests to throw your way as JFS is relatively new, for more info on JFS: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6268 On 3/3/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:56:22AM +0100, JB wrote: > > On 3/3/06, ssevengor@xxxxxxxxxx <ssevengor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Don't hesitate Ext3! > > > > > > Here explanation; > > > http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/ > > > > Now, that is a pretty old whitepaper on ext3. There has been quite > > alot of development on journalling file systems over the year. > > > > A nice overview is here: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Features > > That document is a bit outdated and it's flat out wrong in places. > > Check out http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html for one person's > recent set of benchmark runs. You'll see that he finds ext3 to be > comparable to other file systems and in some tests, ext3 kicks some > serious reiser butt. > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
