Journaling file systems

[SUOrangeman]

What's the latest with ReiserFS, JFS, and ext3?

I was installing the Mandrake 8.1 beta and was given options for those three filesystems, as well as the usual suspects. I've been using ReiserFS for a while. Is it worth the jump (on a new install) to JFS or ext3?

-SUO

[evulish]

Some sites I've picked along the information highway:
http://alain.good-bits.de/ http://www.wlug.org/files/lvm_slides/img16.htm && http://www.wlug.org/files/lvm_slides/lvmslides-html.htm http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/212/

[Malakin]

Some good links there.

Reiser is destroying the competition when it comes to creating or removing large numbers of files, no wonder when I use rm -Rf these days it's so speedy. According to that one link Reiser is 25X faster at "randomly deleting files", and 9.6X faster at "radomly creating files" then XFS is, that's an enormous difference, note that JFS isn't listed in that test unfortunately.

I've been using reiser since it first because available in mandrake(7.2? maybe can't remember), never had a problem with it, start up times after a crash are not even a second longer then normal on a 40gig drive.

The only thing that's annoyed me is I can't set files to immutable. (chattr +i) but then this probably doesn't work on any of the journalling fs's so it's not really an issue(maybe ext3)

[Strike]

ext3 actually seemed pretty good in all of the performance data that I read, which is pretty good considering it's still in beta. I'm thinking my final decision (once they are all merged into the kernel source tree, if they all are) would be between XFS and ext3.