Re: unix file system(s)

From: Greg Beeker (gbeeker_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/30/05


Date: 30 Mar 2005 07:11:36 -0800


Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> "TompoeS" <tompoes88-geen@spam-pandora.be> wrote:
>
> > does anyone know/have an overview about the (most common) UNIX
> > file systems? and what about the advantages en disadvantages
> > they have?
> >
> > also how these different file systems doing due to performance,
> > fragmentation and recovery.
>
> First of all: Popularity != Quality, and that does not only apply
> to file systems. Here are *some* of them:
>
> ufs
> ext2
> ext3 (essentially ext2 with journaling)
> reiserfs
> zfs
>
> A web search for the above terms should give you something to
> read. Also look at
>
>
http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/fs_performance.pdf
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no -
http://home.online.no/~pjacklam
On AIX, the journal file system is called JFS, then there is the
enchanced version called JFS2.



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