Re: [ILUG] journaling comparison...

From: Mark Kilmartin (mrk at domain renre-europe.com)
Date: Tue 28 Aug 2001 - 14:59:11 IST


Anybody know if ext3 can easly support online resizing.

Because IMHO other than th efact it is journeled this is the best
feature of reiserfs.

Mark

On Tue, 2001-08-28 at 14:13, kevin lyda wrote:
> see here:
>
> http://lwn.net/daily/jfs-comparison.php3
>
> summary (in speed order):
>
> ext2 < jfs < xfs < ext3 < reiserfs
>
> it really looks like ext3 will win out in the end however for home
> user boxes. for newer servers, jfs looks best. on further thought
> though it would seem like the following fs layout would be best:
>
> / ext2
> /usr ext2 (optionally in ro mode)
> /tmp tmpfs
> /var ext3/jfs
> /home ext3/jfs
>
> app specific dirs (/var/lib/mysql, /var/www, etc) should be ext3/jfs
> filesystems. in the short term ext3 looks favorable even for new systems
> since pretty much every emergency boot disk can get at ext3 partitions
> (in ext2 mode).
>
> ok, thoughts, flames, etc...
>
> kevin
>



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