Which filesystem you are using?

[computerophil]

Which filesystem you are using?

For Linux I use normaly ext3, for Data-Partition NTFS so I have access from Windows as well.

[elija]

I voted ext4 as I am running it on my system disk. My data is held on another drive and mounted into my "Documents" folder and that drive is ext3.

I don't have any Windows machines so that would be all.

[daark.child]

I'm currently using ext3 on all my Linux boxes.

[oz]

ext3 works really well for me.

[Freston]

I prefer ReiserFS.

No Windows machines that are my personal property, but I do have a couple of FAT# formatted USB sticks, SD cards and an external drive. I'd change that, but compatibility becomes an issue then. Certain proprietary Operating Systems can't handle anything but FAT and NTFS.

[saivin]

I use ext3 on all distros I run. Frankly, I use it by default, not as a conscious decision weighing pros and cons of each of them.

Freston, I heard ReiserFS is not maintained anymore mostly coz Reiser is no more.

[Freston]

Freston, I heard ReiserFS is not maintained anymore mostly coz Reiser is no more.

Reisers ex-wife is no more, and that's why Reiser is in prison

I'm not really sure how the development will continue, but I probably could have known if I had searched a little though. Still, I'm not to worried about the file system. I'll read up on progress next time I have to do an install. And otherwise I've heard good things about JFS and XFS but maybe I'll have a look at EXT4.

[rokytnji]

I like saivin use the defaults usually. When it calls for ext3 I use it. When it calls for ext2 I use it also. I've heard some hype on ext3 being hard on SSD drives. Supposedly the file system wears out SSD drives Faster. Don't know yet how true that statement is yet. Haven't researched it enough yet.

[jmadero]

I wish ext4 had shipped with intrepid...I loved it in Jaunty but with the bugs I faced in Jaunty had to give it up....don't have the time to force ext4 to work in 8.10 otherwise I would....I was amazed with the specs on ext4 vs 3 and even against NTFS)

[Jonathan183]

I voted ext3 because I use it for most of my partitions - root, home, data all with data journaling set on. I use reiserfs for var when I create a separate /var partition (my understanding is it gives better performance for small files). I'd risk root and /home on ext4 but data stays on ext3.

I use ntfs for the Windows XP partition I still have on one machine ... since I'm down to a single application actually requiring XP installed for (rather than running in a VM) I don't really need a separate data partition - more space for ext3.