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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 -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html