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List:       subversion-users
Subject:    Re: Recommended linux file system?
From:       Blair Zajac <blair () orcaware ! com>
Date:       2008-03-31 17:49:56
Message-ID: 47F12444.9020207 () orcaware ! com
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Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "marc" == marc gonzalez-carnicer <carnicer.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  marc> if you have an UPS and/or a RAID disk, i'd say use ext2, which
>  marc> is supposed to be faster.
> 
> UPS, perhaps.  But RAID doesn't protect against power failures.
> Neither protects against crashes.
> 
> With ext2, if you take a powerfail, you're looking at an fsck run
> (which can take a very long time).
> 
> For what it's worth, we use ext3 for this reason.  

Agreed, and most Subversion repositories are read much more then written to, so 
write speed doesn't matter too much.

Blair


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