Just wondering, what is generally considered the best Linux filesystem to use? Traditionally I've used ReiserFS, but for no real reason. I guess I liked the name Which filesystem gives the best performance and reliability out of: ext2 ext3 ReiserFS Reiser4 XFS
I tend to use RFS by recomendation from..... you guessed it - AT. Ubuntu tend to go for ext3 by default. I suppose that should do.....
ReiserFS - Fast and stable; just remember to tar other reiserfs images before storing them on a live Reiser partition. Reiser4 - Looking promising but not ready for mainstream. ext2 - Fast, non-journalized older filestem; depreciated for pretty much everything but floppies & zip drives. ext3 - Slower than ext2 but with added journalization support. Considered stable and easy to recover. XFS - Fast, journalled filesystem which is great for RAIDs but doesn't work well on pre-2.6 kernels. JFS - A fast, stable journalled filesystem ported from AIX but not widely used on GNU / Linux systems.
