Preferred file systems under Linux?

[Sysman]

What file systems does the panel recommend for Linux?

The default nowadays for Ubunti (and Linux Mint) is ext4, but that gives problems - see "Performance regressions with ext4 under certain workloads".

In particular, the latest release of VirtualBox issues dire warnings if it finds a virtual disk on ext4 and sets some parameter or other for those disks which doesn't give optimal performance (sorry, 'tis Friday afternoon and I can't find the link any more).

I am currently using Winders as a VirtualBox host, so that bit isn't currently a concern, but I do tend to hammer file systems a lot, thus my question. Currently using a mixture of ext4 for the boot device and ext3 for data, but Ext3 disadvantages puts me off that.

 

[xchaotic]

Surely VirtualBox as it's coming from Sun should play nicely with ZFS?
If you're doing little in the host OS, you might consider OpenSolaris as the host OS

 

[Sysman]

That's an idea I hadn't thought of.

Thanks. It's certainly worth exploring.

In "The more I come across Winders restrictions, the more I hate it" mode. Which is a shame, because there are some good things in there.

 

[lilelvis2000]

I went with ext4 for everything - it gives good overall performance. I hear xfs is pretty good but haven't tried it myself.

 

[stek]

I went with ext4 for everything - it gives good overall performance. I hear xfs is pretty good but haven't tried it myself.

xfs is Irix's old filesystem from SGI land. Does Linux have it now?

zfs is the daddy though, but I prefer AIX's jfs2 and the built-in Volume Management - it's utter class...

 

[lilelvis2000]

xfs is Irix's old filesystem from SGI land. Does Linux have it now?

zfs is the daddy though, but I prefer AIX's jfs2 and the built-in Volume Management - it's utter class...

I think there are some licensing issues with zfs, I think its only possible to run it outside the kernel. though I have heard there are some ports going on so maybe one day.

Yeah, anything better than LVM.

 

[Mr.Whippy]

I prefer AIX's jfs2 and the built-in Volume Management - it's utter class...

WHS, AIX LVM is great

I use ext4 on the linux boxes I have, works well enough for me.

 

[stek]

WHS, AIX LVM is great

chvg -g VGname...

I've just come....

 

[Mr.Whippy]

chvg -g VGname...

I've just come....

I'll save that for when they make it work on the rootvg

 

[stek]

I'll save that for when they make it work on the rootvg

There's always loads of spare PP's on rootvg!