[plug] ReiserFS (was Mandrake-8)

[Bill Kenworthy]

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Never tried ext3.  ext2 always caused probs with the time to recover
20g+ disk space on a crash/bad shutdown(wrong switch on power point!)
and in a couple of cases I lost some files, and even the lot in one
case.

I have had one prob only with a reiserfs (an infinite directory!) and it
was easily fixed with the reiser tools, nothing lost.

I avoided ext3 as it seems too much like a patch to something that had
proved itself obsolete by newer designs like reiser is, not for any real
perceived advantage.

There's also jfs which some are touting as the *answer*, but I think
that its basicly up to you ... as long as you choose a journalled file
system.

BillK

On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 20:30, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 20:17, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > use reiserfs and 8.1 - better than 8.0!
> 
> Actually, I get better mileage out of ext3. ReiserFS rarely goes wrong, but 
> when it does the problems are often harder to fix than with ext2 or ext3 
> (actually, I have never had an ext3 break on me). All of the ext2 tools are 
> useable on ext3.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
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>