[nylug-talk] Big filesystem recommendation - which one?

[Sunny Dubey]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 07:46:10 pm jh wrote:
> I'm totally open to using JFS. Can't RTFA, tho, can't get to the site. I
> assume that someone found that JFS was best for a similar situation to
> mine?

Everyone is going to put out an article that says FooFS is the best for BAR 
needs.  All these articles are pointless.

If you could, maybe you could write some test progs to stress test the hell 
out of all the FS's for your particular needs ?

I've been using JFS for 4 years or so (maybe more).  Back in the day Ext3 was 
too little, XFS was too much (still is IMO), RFS was too different from day 
to day, and then there was JFS.  It had all the features without the mindless 
development.  These days its rarely patched, I assume because it just works.

The bad news is few use JFS.  Most distros opt for Ext3 by default, and JFS 
has never had the needless hype of XFS or RFS, so the linux masses never 
mindlessly adopted it.  So if you do run into that bizarre bug during the 
blue moon ... you better have good google-fu skillz.

The good news is few use JFS.  The signal to noise ratio is low, and the IBM 
developers and such can be found on the mailing list.

HTH

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Sunny Dubey

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