Favorite FS

[madcompnerd]

Ok, so let's hear everybody's favorite FS. So far I've only played with ext3 and reiser, but I know there are more like xfs and jfs. Any loyal devotees who'd like to sell their favorite FS on everyone?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

UFS

Of course, I use UFS because I use FreeBSD. So, if I wanted to sell you on UFS, I'd have to sell you on FreeBSD... Maybe I'll become an evangelist...

[dungscooperdave]

I'm using XFS on my Mandrake Partition because I read somewhere that it was excellent. Haven't had any problems with it so far, but once when I was using XFS on a system and installing Gentoo, the power went out and the filesystem was all fscked up. I thought the whole purpose of a journalised filesystem was to prevent that kind of crap? Anyway, I'll probably use ext3 next time since it's the tried and true classic Linux FS (plus I'm hoping it's more reliable than my experiences with XFS).

[Hayl]

i use Reiser on my workstation and Ext3 on my server box

[st0rmrd]

my first try with a journalling file system was with JFS. Well, I was totally unimpressed. It took around 2-3 hours to do a check, when the power was lost or something weird brought the system unexpectedly down. The journal was most of the times fscked up. It's supposed to be IBM technology, but I really doubt it.
Then came (on the same distro version, after a reinstall) ext3, which was what I expected from a journalling filesystem, nothing fancy, it just works. Never had a problem, I sometimes missed the file system scanning, after a system failure. It took around 5-10 seconds to bring my filesystem to operating status. All this, a while back, with SuSE 7.3

Now, with SuSE 8.2, I installed on ReiserFS, and I can say that it feels something like ext3, but I don't care, it works. It could be that it's faster, or it could be anything else. Haven't tried XFS, and I guess I won't unless there is a really good reason to get out of this stability blissful dream :D

[madcompnerd]

I run ext3 on my fast machine, it was my first real try at Linux and ext3 was the default, plus I knew it was journaling.
On a slower box I installed reiserFS. After I've seen it run with ext3 I can tell you, reiser seems faster to me. I like it. I don't know how it is on crashes, but I know it only does meta-data journaling for increased speed, which means some data can be lost. That doesn't bother me, it's not a server.
I understand ext3 does meta-data and data journaling, but you can turn data journaling off. However, reiser uses some form of balanced binary tree structure? I'm not sure what for, I'd love to know though.

[saturn-vk]

i use reiser on my server and ext3 on my workstation

[hop-frog]

does anyone know of a website with a comparison of the pro's and con's of these?

[myshkin]

ext3, it came default with mandy. im not sure about the others, have tried them though, but couldnt tell the difference. and i have one big fat32 as a storage hdd for all my movies, animes and mp3s. fat is still good in that i can use it with any os with linux or windows install, pretty handy.

[madcompnerd]

FAT32 is a great simple filesystem. In this modern day it's nice to have a simplistic file system that's compatible with almost everything.

[bazoukas]

I just changed to XFS. I am gonna do now a cold reboot of my computer and see how it works.

[hop-frog]

I get lots of power outages where I live. Which filesystem should I be using?

[Drago]

ext3 here:D

[trn]

lots of power outages... use ext3

My vote is for UFS :) havn't gotten to try out UFS2 yet tho... might have to reinstall and give it a go when freeBSD 5.1rc1 comes out =\

[Darksamurai]

ext3

[Exodus2001]

I use reiser in Red Hat 9.0 and Slackware 9.0

[phil_patnude]

i've used reiser for the last 3 distros i installed: asplinux (rh 7.x based), slack & vector (slack based). I've used ext2 & 3 in the past, reiser does feel a bit faster, i'm not really curious why and since reiser's working nicely for my poor little box i don't anticipate switching anytime soon

[Yin]

I use ext3 on RH9 and Vector 3.2.
Haven't tried any other FS with Linux.

[Kaligraphic]

NTFS ;)

I use ext2, actually.

[plattypus1]

I used to have a dual-boot system, which meant I was using NTFS and ext3. NTFS is a half-way decent filesystem, in my experiences with it.

As far as Linux goes, ext3 rocks. I have yet to have an error.

[phil_patnude]

what is you all's experience with XFS? is it any faster or more reliable than reiser or ext3?

i'm curious about it but i heard it was more for servers or something