Re: [gentoo-server] what is the best filesystem for a server

[Gunnar Mann <g.mann@mnx.eu>]

Assuming you speak about linux servers:
Ext3 is not the bleeding edge in speed when handling a lot of small 
files (rather take xfs here) but fast for normal data structures, is 
rock solid  and it's journaling feature works great. I never had any 
file system crash for years now, even when cold-hearted unplugging power 
cords from test servers.

Moreover, the successor Ext4 shall overcome the mentioned speed issue 
and has some more new features. Ext3 partitions can be used with Ext4 
software.

NTFS enjoys full read and write access from linux systems via ntfs-3g. 
Nevertheless, I would recommend using a native linux file system which 
is fully integrated (for example "acl" and "xattr" capabilities which 
are implemented in a completely different way in NTFS)

Gunnar

Tomasz Lutelmowski wrote:
> NTFS is the best one but unfortunately not fully supported by linux :/
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 08:11:17 +0530, widyachacra wrote
>> what is the best filesystem for a server
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