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what file system(s) do you prefer?

Poll Results: what file system(s) do you use?

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 4% (1)
    ext2
  • 59% (13)
    ext3
  • 22% (5)
    ext4
  • 4% (1)
    jfs
  • 0% (0)
    xfs
  • 9% (2)
    reiserfs
  • 0% (0)
    other
22 Total Votes  
post #1 of 9
4/7/09 at 11:16am
Thread Starter 
just a quick poll because i'm curious - what file system (or systems) do you use, and why?

i'm currently using ext3 on / and /home; i'm considering switching to a soup of xfs (/, /home) and reiserfs (/var) when i migrate to arch.

and yes, i am bored.
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post #2 of 9
4/8/09 at 12:31am
24 views and one vote. I don't have a preference, its all just theory to me. In practice, I doubt I would notice a difference since I'm not running a specialized environment.
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post #3 of 9
4/8/09 at 12:50am
Well I am two of those views now, but really it comes down to what I am doing. As a general purpose system ext3(And most likely ext4) will be my FS of choice. But for specialized things I may look at XFS or even other FSs.

Seablade
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post #4 of 9
4/16/09 at 9:12pm
I typically leave it at whatever the default is for the distro I'm using, thus I currently use EXT3 (debian and ubuntu), but I used to use ReiserFS when I ran Slackware. Honestly, can't tell a bit of difference.
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post #5 of 9
4/3/10 at 9:45am
i use ext3 for / and reiserfs for /home...
my boss asks me to try out ext4 but my machine needs to be up and running all of the time so i can't risk using ext4 on Mandriva 2009.1
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post #6 of 9
4/10/10 at 8:54pm
I'm using ext2 for my /boot partition, and ext4 for the rest and have been doing so for about a year and a half. I'm currently running Gentoo Linux testing (~86) with Xorg-1.7.6, KDE-4.4.2 and Zen-kernel-2.33-p1.

Ciao
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post #7 of 9
4/11/10 at 6:46am
ext3 on netbooks with a solid state drive... Otherwise I use ext4 as I generally let the ubuntu or other linux install get on with it at default... I am not running any special environments, so it doesn't really matter...
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post #8 of 9
4/12/10 at 10:29pm
eventually Btrfs is going to be the file system to use going forward. its not ready for everyday use yet though
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post #9 of 9
8/5/10 at 2:29pm
Use EXT4 at the moment, until something newer comes along.
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