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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Gfs2 vs xfs vs ext4 Post 302370830 by Corona688 on Thursday 12th of November 2009 01:55:30 PM

11-12-2009

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Originally Posted by king_hippo

We tried ext3 but it was just too slow

Large ext3 partitions can be slow to fsck, but aren't that bad in operation. It's also important to note that the default ext3 mount options are brain-dead for large, heavily-cached systems; for instance, a commit interval of 5 seconds is rather small, and the default 'ordered' writing mode is extremely safe but sometimes a bottleneck.

On the other hand ext3 is excellent at safety. I've seen ext3 recover from horrible abuse.

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I am not sure if ext4 is any faster or not.

ext4 is somewhat faster but the difference is not gigantic. Its fsck is much faster than ext3's for partitions larger than hundreds of gigs. I don't feel it's quite mature, though. Only time will tell if it's as reliable as ext3.

Another filesystem you might consider is xfs. It's fairly mature, and designed for huge, fast transfers...

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e2label

E2LABEL(8)                                                    System Manager's Manual                                                   E2LABEL(8)

NAME

       e2label - Change the label on an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       e2label device [ volume-label ]

DESCRIPTION

       e2label will display or change the volume label on the ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem located on device.

       If the optional argument volume-label is not present, e2label will simply display the current volume label.

       If  the optional argument volume-label is present, then e2label will set the volume label to be volume-label.  Ext2 volume labels can be at
       most 16 characters long; if volume-label is longer than 16 characters, e2label will truncate it and print a warning message.

       It is also possible to set the volume label using the -L option of tune2fs(8).

AUTHOR

       e2label was written by Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).

AVAILABILITY

       e2label is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

       mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8)

E2fsprogs version 1.44.1                                            March 2018                                                          E2LABEL(8)