[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Tim Schmidt wrote:

> Just to throw in my 2 cents...  ext3 tends to be the most widely
> tested of the Linux filesystems, and has the most capable fsck.  Other
> filesystems may be a few seconds faster in one way or another,

XFS may be a few seconds faster in performance terms, but in fsk time it
can be minutes faster. This can considerably lengthen boot time. Of
course this isn't an issue if you "never reboot". But when, eventually,
you reboot that Nth time, and you really need to get the system up,
that's when the long march of the etx2/3 fsk can really bite your butt.

> but if
> you care about your data actually being there when you need it,
> there's no safer choice on Linux than ext3.

I can't say you're wrong, but can you point to any published
comparisons, or are you relying on surmise?

> --tim

Ray