akand074
March 3rd, 2010, 10:39 PM
Hey guys, just a quick question. I read about each kind of file system, heres a quote;
JFS - IBM's Journaled FileSystem- The first filesystem to offer journaling. JFS had many years of use in the IBM AIX® OS before being ported to GNU/Linux. JFS currently uses the least CPU resources of any GNU/Linux filesystem. Very fast at formatting, mounting and fsck's, and very good all-around performance, especially in conjunction with the deadline I/O scheduler. (See JFS (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JFS).) Not as widely supported as ext or ReiserFS, but very mature and stable.
JFS seems to be a pretty good file system according to that, so my question is what benefits is there of using ext4 instead of JFS for my linux installation? If any? Also when I do a clean install of Ubuntu on my desktop (probably not until the release of lynx) I was going to try putting /, /home, /var, /boot, /tmp, and /usr on a separate partition. I was going to use ReiserFS for /var, but does anyone recommend a certain file system for the others? (Ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS)? Because I know ReiserFS is supposed to be faster for a large amount of small files and XFS is fast for large files so would any other contain only small files / large files so that it would be beneficial to use those file systems?
I guess the quick question got a little longer.. aha well any input would be great, thanks!
JFS - IBM's Journaled FileSystem- The first filesystem to offer journaling. JFS had many years of use in the IBM AIX® OS before being ported to GNU/Linux. JFS currently uses the least CPU resources of any GNU/Linux filesystem. Very fast at formatting, mounting and fsck's, and very good all-around performance, especially in conjunction with the deadline I/O scheduler. (See JFS (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JFS).) Not as widely supported as ext or ReiserFS, but very mature and stable.
JFS seems to be a pretty good file system according to that, so my question is what benefits is there of using ext4 instead of JFS for my linux installation? If any? Also when I do a clean install of Ubuntu on my desktop (probably not until the release of lynx) I was going to try putting /, /home, /var, /boot, /tmp, and /usr on a separate partition. I was going to use ReiserFS for /var, but does anyone recommend a certain file system for the others? (Ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS)? Because I know ReiserFS is supposed to be faster for a large amount of small files and XFS is fast for large files so would any other contain only small files / large files so that it would be beneficial to use those file systems?
I guess the quick question got a little longer.. aha well any input would be great, thanks!