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#96 Re: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch Posted by wouter (87.244.xx.xx) on Thu 27 Apr 2006 at 02:40 Compatibility was something that kept me away from trying other filesystems, but I can honestly say that it hasn't been an issue in the last years or so when I've been using different filesystems than ext2/ext3 on Linux. These days, tools and integration have been setup quite nicely by the distribution maintainers, and a fsck-interface is used by all of the ones I've tried anyway. Ofcourse, if you want to play with more advanced options, dump filesystems or do anything out of the ordinary your findings may be different -- I would not know since I rarely, if ever, use these features. On the other hand, IMO it rarely matters which filesystem you use anyway. I would challenge anybody to guess the filesystem running on a light to medium loaded desktop or server. Differences (in speed of mature common journaling filesystems) really are rather small for general use, and it's not until you have very specific tasks to be done or very i/o loaded systems to be managed that the choice of journaling filesystem becomes a real issue. I believe that XFS has upcoming (or perhaps already has some) support in FreeBSD, though. FreeBSD has ext2 (read) support too. And IIRC, there was a (non-microsoft, obviously) driver adding ext2 (hence, ext3) support to Windows -- if you run that OS and want to allow it to touch your nice Linux system, that is. I suppose that falls under compatibility too.

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