Module 0178: Linux file systems

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

July 2, 2009
1 About this module
2 File system properties
 2.1 Maximum file size
 2.2 Maximum file system size
 2.3 Journaling
 2.4 Security
 2.5 Efficiency (Performance)
 2.6 Maturity
 2.7 Online resizing
 2.8 Defragmentation
 2.9 Snapshotting
3 Specific file systems
 3.1 Ext3 (extension 3)
 3.2 ReiserFS
 3.3 XFS
 3.4 JFS
4 So which file system should I use?
 4.1 Ext3
 4.2 JFS or XFS
 4.3 ReiserFS