Re: [tlug] xfs, jfs, reiser

[Tomita Alberto <alberto.tomita@example.com>]

At Tue, 7 May 2002 12:28:06 +0900,
Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> [...] Are Reiser and JFS comparable?

no. ReiserFS was the first journaled filesystem to make into
the kernel tree and it's already mature, while JFS just recently
became usable.

> Which one would you run on your workstation? A server? Why?

for a workstation, I'd use ext3 -- it's backwards compatible
with ext2, and can be configured to journal both physical data
and/or meta-data
  http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/

for a server, XFS -- it came from SGI Irix, scales very well
(in case you are running a multimedia streaming server), and
supports extended ACLs (for Samba NG).

more details on the limitations of each file system:
    http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html

-alberto