Filesystem Type and why?

[AliOop]

In a recent thread concerning an iPod ( http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22008 )and the type of formatting used on it while in Windows, several types of filesystems were mentioned: Reiserfs, ext2, ext3. While these terms are familiar to me, this is a matter that I've never been able to completely understand. Without going too deeply into the subject could someone give a thumbnail sketch on the filesystems and why one would use one over the other. For the sake of conformity and cross compatibility (as in using the iPod with Widows and Linux) would using an older but more established system be better all around? How would this come into play when using such items like an iPod and other equipment with both OSs? Would security be compromised in anyway? Thanks.

[imdeemvp]

i hope this will help you: http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/adonovan/hacks/ipod.html

by the way if you formmat the ipod fat32 it will be easier to mount in fedora :o

[ghaefb]

Filesystem info -> http://www.linuxgeek.net/beginners/node101.html

[inha]

Filesystem info -> http://www.linuxgeek.net/beginners/node101.html

The ext3 filesystem is a journaling extension to the standard ext2 filesystem on Linux. Journaling results in massively reduced time spent recovering a filesystem after a crash, and is therefore in high demand in environments where high availability is important, not only to improve recovery times on single machines but also to allow a crashed machine's filesystem to be recovered on another machine when we have a cluster of nodes with a shared disk. Maximum file system size 4 Terabytes, Maximum file size 2 Gigabytes.

damnit. I wish I had known that when I made all of my home/storage partitions ext3.