28 Sep
2003
28 Sep
'03
8:53 p.m.
Hi,
I am trying to setup my new laptop to be a very friendly environment for
multimedia editing and software development. I have been googling for
several hours now and am having trouble coming to a conclusive decision
over which filesystem to run. I am leaning toward ReiserFS, but have
looked at XFS pretty closely. I have read a little on
ext3, but what I have found seems a little bit dated now. Any opinions
you guys might have would be very welcome. Here is a summary of the
strengths/weeknesses of each of them as far as I can tell.
Summary:
XFS: Great for a multimedia server. Very fast performance with large
files. Not as fast as ReiserFS with smaller files (E.g. software
development and day to day use). Tendency to get corrupted on laptops.
ReiserFS: Seems to be a good balance. Pretty fast performance with large
files, excellent performance with smaller files, very fast at seeking out
the location of a file, robust in a laptop environment.
ext3: slow. Many tests online compared ext3 to XFS and Reiser and found
it failing regularly when used for large file read/writes.
Before I jump in and just do it...
Anyone have any horror stories of ReiserFS on a laptop, or ReiserFS with
Ardour?
Anyone have any anecdotes that illustrate that XFS is:
a. Suitable for use on a laptop now?
b. Suitable for use on a developers box and not just on a
multimedia workhorse?
Thanks for *any* insight into these two filesystems.
--g