File System Round-Up Interview 112
Little Sheep writes: "An interesting round-up interview regarding modern Linux filesystems is published by OSNews, featuring the developers behind IBM's JFS, ReiserFS and SGI's XFS filesystems."
"Been through Hell? Whaddya bring back for me?" -- A. Brilliant
Production Use (Score:2, Informative)
Generally, datacenter environments demand reliability over speed, and a good track record wins the day in selecting technologies.
When we implemented our database backend, we decided to go with SGI's JFS based on years of production use. So far we havn't encountered any problems!
-Marvin
the reason is small files (Score:3, Informative)
Reiser is desgned for large amounts of Dir and files which is what this tests for
and yes it achive very high marks but I have yet to see a TB on a Reiser in a live platform yet I see one every day for XFS (streaming video) and I know someone who has AIX with 3TB on it
most large files seem to be of the video nature or are database yes while MP3s are comman and thata is what Reiser did (remember mp3.com was a sponsor and came up in the boot up) but I have to say round here most peoples dir do not contain over 1000 files most have some MP3s and video, documents and the like
really I have been running XFS on a i686 for a while and have not had anything go wrong (we havent exactly pushed it tho)
what XFS and JFS need are ports to other archs and JFS seems to recogise this
remember benchmarks are written to test certain things but we commanly relie on quantum chaotic things and are unable to test for this (because they dont really have random things)
Re:References on filesystem design? (Score:3, Informative)
Great book, has a detailed overview of the BeOS structure, some comparisons and explanations of other filesystems (like ext2, NTFS, XFS, and HFS+), and a cool file system builder kit with full source to pretty nifty example filesystem.