Which is the best file system?

[Lobster]

We are using ext3?
Seems OK

Any of this useful?
http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html

[GuestToo]

i personally prefer ext3 for Linux and FAT32 for Windows

reiserfs did not have fast file repair tools, so i have always avoided reiser (i remember having to wait an hour or 2 for fsck to check the resier partition after Linux crashed) ... it may have better repair tools now, i don't know ... under real-world conditions, i have never noticed any speed advantage to reiserfs anyway

NTFS is probably better than FAT32, but i find FAT32 more accessible if you boot other os's ... i can easily read and write the files on a FAT32 file system from Linux and Win9x and even DOS

some people have a small reiserfs partition for the os files and another ext3 partition for data files (for example, /home) ... i have not noticed much difference so i have not bothered to do something like that

[gnomen]

An issue with some of the fancy filesystems is that they can be hard on the CPU. So not a good idea for a puppy.. This was noticable with reiser4 on my little laptop at least so I went back to ext3, tried and true

ext3 can be safely tweaked to greater performance as well: Disable unneccesary and lengthy boot-time checks, enable full journaling and using directory indexing. Haven't tried it yet, but I am about to