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Re: Recommended linux file system?

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:30:24 -0400

On 31-Mar-08, at 4:10 AM, 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?

Never had a problem with Reiser3 in many years of use with
Subversion. I have seen data loss on powerfail with ext3.

--Toby

>
> 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
Received on 2008-04-01 03:30:53 CEST

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