From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1n4u-0004Je-3C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:55:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 163AA1C009; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (boss.hadt.biz [78.47.36.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5411C009 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5DF46637.dip.t-dialin.net [93.244.102.55]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83C4A3B005 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:53:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D87C8E1.9080006@hadt.biz> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:53:37 +0100 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fcb925b33836f63661893243d4065191 > I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose > server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). > For me very important features are: > > Now without trying to start flame-war, my question is: > which of them could be better for my need? > More stable, more reliable, more efficient, etc. > Or should I consider some different filesystem? No easy to answer, jfs and xfs are both good file systems, that's why I am using both on my server at home. JFS on my root partition and backup storage space (250.000 files of all sizes, 900GB) because it uses very little cpu and is very fast. Low cpu usage was important for me, because my backup space is encrypted with cryptsetup/LUKS. On my media storage (recordings, movies, only big files: 500MB to 15GB) I use xfs because of it's delayed allocation which helps to avoid fragmentation. With xfs_fsr xfs also brings it's own defragmentation utility. Speedwise I would they that they are both at about the same speed, but I cannot give you exact numbers. xfs however uses more memory (because of the delayed allocation) and if your server suddenly loses power you can lose data. Hope that helps you, greetings from germany Michael