>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:12:04AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:11:57 -0800, Barton Bosch wrote:
>> > I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and
>> > am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files.
>> >
>> > It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk
>> > Druid). How is an XFS partition added? Does anyone here have any
>> > experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2?
>>
>> I experiments with JFS and XFS some time ago, and thier performance for
>> media files (or a relativly slow disk) wasn't that good compared to ext3.
>>
>> Things may have changed of course.
>>
>> - Steve
>
>I've heard good things about reiser4, it's supposed to be faster
>than anything out there right now. I don't know anything about
>it's stability, though. Is anyone using reiser4? I'm using
>reiserFS for my main system partitions right now, and I haven't
>had any problems with it.
>
A word of warning. There was a post by Andrew Morton a while back that said not
to use Reiser with 2.6. It's fine with 2.4 (what I use in fact). It may be
fixed with 2.6 but I haven't heard anything new. I use XFS on all of my 2.6
systems (FC3) and it is indeed *much* faster than ext3.
Jan
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