2008/11/25 Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se:
MHR <> scribbled on Friday, November 21, 2008 7:01 PM:
So, your situation is the real determining factor. If it's important enough to your place of employment, do a study to see what works best for you and go with that. Otherwise, I'd say just stick with ext3 as long as that works for you.
No, no, this is directed purely at home use. I've been playing around with MythTV a bit, which usually sooner or later means big files-handling. Ext3 is not that good at that.
I used "to swear" by ReiserFS for a few years on my home desktop, including through a few power failure, until one day I tried to shrink it and lost all data.
I now stick to ext3. It's good enough for anything I need on my desktop, it doesn't require extra hoops to jump through in order to install (I think Debian installer supports it but I don't use Debian any more) and I feel comfortable enough to play with it.
Cheers,
--Amos