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Comparison of File Systems
- weatherlight 2y agoWhy is "Murders your wife" one of the columns and why did Reiser4 and ReiserFS qualify?
- coolguy4 2y agoBecause Hans Reiser, who authored Reiser4 and ReiserFS, was later convicted of murdering his wife.
- weatherlight 2y agothats unfortunate...
- ColinWright 2y agoThis is a useful table that I'll have to look at more closely, but it wouldn't have predicted or prevented a problem I've had. I recently had my home-grown[0] backup system fail silently because although the EXT4 formatted drive had bags of space remaining[1], it ran out of i-nodes. That was ... unexpected. Is there a suitable file system that doesn't have that problem? [0] I have specific and complex requirements not met by any system I found, so despite the obvious potential pitfalls, rolling my own that did exactly and only what I wanted was a reasonable holding strategy. [1] The system monitors all sorts of things and emails me warnings.
- gjvc 2y agohow many i-nodes were configured?
- ColinWright 2y agoNow, after appropriate culls of the backups: $ df -i /dev/sdb1 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 152616960 101081254 51535706 67% /media/user/BackupA So 152M Inodes ... it was the default when I formatted the drive. $ df -h /dev/sdb1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 4.6T 1.4T 2.9T 33% /media/user/BackupA