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Re: [LUG] Change of distro??

 

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 19:12 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> I'd suggest sticking to ext3. It's well known, tried and tested, works 
> well got most cases, and is included with every distribution under the 
> sun.
Having moved to ext4 for Ububtu 10.04 it sounds best to revert to ext3.
> 
> It's highly unlikely that as an ordinary everyday user of Linux that 
> you'll see any sort of benefit at all from running anything other than 
> ext3.
> 
> The one thing that you may notice as an ordinary day to day user with ext3 
> is deleting big files - and by big, I mean 10's of GB.
I don't have them.
>  It's not the 
> fastest in the world at file deletion, so if that's something you'll be 
> doing a lot of, then look elsehwre, but otherwise just stick to ext3 safe 
> in the knowledge that there are millions of others doing the same.
> 
> But if you want to experiment, try btrfs and let me know how you get on 
> ;-)
It looks to be designed for "scaling to the large storage subsystems" -
not me. from https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

Thanks

James

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james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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