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Re: Filesystem recommendations

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____/ seani on Friday 10 October 2008 10:20 : \____

> I'm reorganising our kit internally and I've decided to wipe a few of the
> older machines and reinstall. Usually I just let a chose livecd do it's
> thing unattended an spend 10 mins tweaking the result, and we're off.
> 
> Generally this means accepting EXT3 as a default, but as reliability is
> top of the list as far as these particular boxes are concerned, I thought
> I'd give ZFS a spin.
> 
> Any other suggestions? The principal aim is that the chosen FS could
> recover from inadvertent power failures and leave things in a consistent
> state. Performance isn't an issue - it would generally be a bit of
> browsing, some ssheet / wp work and a bit of printing.

ZFS Needs FUSE, so there's a performance penalty. The next Linux release ought
to have Btrfs from Oracle and maybe ext4, but for now, since reiserfs is
hardly maintained, ext3 seems like a good choice.

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