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Re: Recommended linux file system?

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:25:13 -0700

Daniel Toplak wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> at the moment we migrate a windows 2003 server to Debian 4 etch with
> about 600 SVN repositories.
>
> The revisions of the repos are at the moment from small (about 20-100)
> to big (about 20k-100k).
>
> On the new linux server we will use 1.4.2 (debian 4 stable) version with
> FSFS as backend.
>
>
>
> So which is the recommended linux file system for this scenario?
>
> ReiserFS 3 or 4?
>
> Ext3?
>
> XFS?
>
>
>
> Which one is rock solid for subversion?
>
> The security criteria is the highest priority (less file damage)!
>
> Has some one experiences in those different files systems with SVN?
>
>
>
> Daniel Toplak

We use ext3 for our filesystems and have one with over 150,000 commits in it. I
would just stick with the most supported filesystem by the distribution,
irregardless that you're putting Subversion repositories on it.

Regards,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
CTO, OrcaWare Technologies
<blair_at_orcaware.com>
Subversion training, consulting and support
http://www.orcaware.com/svn/
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