[Discuss] Linux file systems

aldo albanese aldo_albanese at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 27 08:20:42 EDT 2014


This group is great, I learn so much from it.  I like the different opinion that everyone has, makes it more interesting.  At the beginning I was not too specific about where I would utilize these system structures.  This group brings another interesting point, what is the best file system for different applications.  If I had to build a new server for production environment, what would you suggest as partition and file system.

Thanks again,
Aldo   



On Thursday, March 27, 2014 7:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
 
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro
> 
> Richard Pieri wrote:
> > ...ext4...is...a poor choice. ext4 is unstable, it's buggy...

LOL.   ;-) 
ext4 is the most stable and least buggy option available to you.  That's why it is the default for all distributions.  Unless you want to suggest that every distribution maintainer is a bumbling group of fools.

Other filesystems are good in their own way, but ext4 is currently "the standard."  You should only go to another filesystem, for now, if it has some characteristic you care about that ext4 doesn't offer.  For me, this generally means snapshotting.  I evaluated btrfs about 2 years ago with poor success, but I am guessing it's probably good by now.

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