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 1NxjQ2-00053f-MJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:08:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2047E063E; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f183.google.com (mail-pz0-f183.google.com [209.85.222.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BBAE063E for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk13 with SMTP id 13so1854530pzk.13 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:07:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=gSXzsOvZL0nbptuMwdiy91YYdrh4Bc9ebuPl5muYiP8=; b=jkZxs7UQvpRuafCN0df30iwHhmZCtD8rfpe/UO8IQPppMH5Dn/TgrFH5o5mxSNjYaA MUeqJOmq+wFTnbHx0D/MMnbIGVCXVMjF5DvWWpRwElnQtSOw/+K/xthoSw+OhCO5d8gi qN3m0sVgoDUxzfCcgFbhrT6hbpd2jU8ppxTog= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=M5J2LIPwvbqMjU2XubnWnzg+56dsOMa9daz3xbQvbayav0qP9fQ35c2OQCuWnQswG5 w8UVK0tJ4oXDQHkXwasqDSfUqsIXoZKA7vymyqbtWfQvigImvsR+98VnzYnB3OCl5MZp u9DJku7gU3zNIfVpehntiulGZujU+CmBCi8CU= 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 Received: by 10.143.13.4 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:07:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100401174711.GA5120@solfire> References: <20100401174711.GA5120@solfire> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:07:47 -0700 Received: by 10.142.208.15 with SMTP id f15mr811263wfg.310.1270224467951; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1d09130b-a4a3-48c9-b1bc-7773fa49e5aa X-Archives-Hash: 0268b5994e679b309b7f3233cf86242a On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, 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 I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the 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 =C2=A0etc. > > 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=3Darticle&item=3Dreiser4_benchmarks&n= um=3D1 I'm way behind. I haven't even tried ext4 yet! Good luck, Mark