Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> machines  etc.
>
> Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC
> with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources
> I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example).
> Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to
> reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not
> cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be
> good in recovering such thing.
>
> I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel.
>
> The question, what remains is: What choose should I make?
>
> I thank you very much in advance for any help!
> Best regards,
> mcc
>

This doesn't address why you would choose one over another but it was
a recent view of Reiser4 vs a couple of others.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=reiser4_benchmarks&num=1

I'm way behind. I haven't even tried ext4 yet!

Good luck,
Mark