Re: Recommended linux file system?

[Toby Thain <to...@telegraphics.com.au>]

On 31-Mar-08, at 4:10 AM, Daniel Toplak wrote:

> Hi,
>
> at the moment we migrate a windows 2003 server to Debian 4 etch  
> with about 600 SVN repositories.
> The revisions of the repos are at the moment from small (about  
> 20-100) to big (about 20k-100k).
> On the new linux server we will use 1.4.2 (debian 4 stable) version  
> with FSFS as backend.
>
> So which is the recommended linux file system for this scenario?
> ReiserFS 3 or 4?
> Ext3?
> XFS?

Never had a problem with Reiser3 in many years of use with  
Subversion. I have seen data loss on powerfail with ext3.

--Toby

>
> Which one is rock solid for subversion?
> The security criteria is the highest priority (less file damage)!
> Has some one experiences in those different files systems with SVN?
>
> Daniel Toplak

Re: Recommended linux file system?

[Staffan Tjernström <ma...@staffan.tjernstrom.name>]

Reiser is great for lots of small files

XFS is great for smaller number of large files with lots of write ops to
them, and recovers really fast (and accurately) from "bad" events

ext3 is the universal file-system, takes forever (comparitively) to
recover from "bad" events.

I use all three, depending on distro and hardware. Only one "data loss"
event a long time ago on ext3, but that may have been due to a bug in
the AlphaServer version of the code I was running back then (2.4
kernel).

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 21:30 -0400, Toby Thain wrote:
> 
> On 31-Mar-08, at 4:10 AM, Daniel Toplak wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > at the moment we migrate a windows 2003 server to Debian 4 etch with
> > about 600 SVN repositories.
> > The revisions of the repos are at the moment from small (about
> > 20-100) to big (about 20k-100k).
> > On the new linux server we will use 1.4.2 (debian 4 stable) version
> > with FSFS as backend.
> >  
> > So which is the recommended linux file system for this scenario?
> > ReiserFS 3 or 4?
> > Ext3?
> > XFS?
> 
> 
> Never had a problem with Reiser3 in many years of use with Subversion.
> I have seen data loss on powerfail with ext3.
> 
> 
> --Toby
> 
> > 
> >  
> > Which one is rock solid for subversion?
> > The security criteria is the highest priority (less file damage)!
> > Has some one experiences in those different files systems with SVN?
> >  
> > Daniel Toplak
> 


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