Best Filesystems?

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Steve wrote:

> My question is which filesystems would be optimal? I'm used to ext3,
> but would ReiserFS be better for the OS/system files? Is ext3 best for
> the large data files or ext2 or ReiserFS? If I occasionally boot from

In reality relative performance between the filesystems varies with kernel 
versions and versions of the filesystem code in use (they can vary from 
one another :)

Received wisdom would have it that xfs is generally best when dealing with 
large files and Reiserfs is best when dealing with large numbers of files 
in a directory.

In reality it won't matter much unless you are wanting very high 
performance, IMHO.

More important are the relative features offered.  My preferred 
filesystem these days is xfs, partly because of the rich feature set.

> a liveCD I'd need to be able to have full access (R/W) to files on the
> 70GB partition.
> 
> Also, I will be using VMware 5.0 with windowsxp as Guest OS. Does
> anyone know if windows in VMware needs to be installed on a FAT/NTFS
> partition? As it is all virtual, I am assuming it can be installed on
> a linux filesystem.

MS-Windows needs to be in a filesystem it understand but you can install 
MS-Windows in a file on your *nix filesystem.

Rob

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