Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting? 210
An anonymous reader writes "I'm hoping for a discussion about the best file system for a web hosting server. The server would serve as mail, database, and web hosting. Running CPanel. Likely CentOS. I was thinking that most hosts use ext3 but with of the reading/writing to log files, a constant flow of email in and out, not to mention all of the DB reads/writes, I'm wondering if there is a more effective FS. What do you fine folks think?"
ReiserFS Sure (Score:4, Funny)
It will kill your innocent files to save some space....
Re:ZFS (Score:2, Funny)
WinFS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ReiserFS Sure (Score:3, Funny)
I heard it can murder your server's performance.....
ReiserFS. It kills the competition. (Score:0, Funny)
EOM.
Re:ReiserFS Sure (Score:4, Funny)
I heard it only kills the wifi. And then makes it disappear completely.
Re:ZFS (Score:5, Funny)
Depending on the type of web content, XXXFS might be appropriate.
Definitely FAT, but which one? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:reiserfs (Score:4, Funny)
I hear reiserfs is killer.
(too soon?)
Whatever... I really did love reiser3 back in the day, if only because rm -rf on large dirs was blazingly swift compared to ext2
Re:ext3 (Score:4, Funny)
I don't quite trust ext4 for writes.
app: Hey, can you write this data out to
ext4: DONE!
app: Uhh, that wasn't long enough to actually write the data.
ext4: Sure it was, I'm super faGRRRRRRRRRRRRRst at writing too.
app: wait, did you just cache that write and report it written but then not actually write it to disk until 30 seconds later?
ext4: Yeah, what about it?
That being said, ext3 and mount it with the noatime flag. If you're on a web server you don't want to be hammering it with writes to update the last access time. That's just silly.