Jay Kline <jay at slushpupie.com> wrote: > > The only advantage I see to ReiserFS is that it seems to be used more. ...and therefore debugged more. My brother ran into some big trouble using SGI's XFS-enabled version of RedHat, though I think he may not have had an up-to-date BIOS on his system. I ran into similar trouble with ReiserFS, but that's probably since I was overclocking. In both cases, files got mucked up in various ways. The more interesting instances were where one file suddenly turned into a different one halfway through. I don't think I know anyone who's tried it, but I'd almost suggest going for ext3. Last I heard, there's some level of backward/forward compatibility with ext2, so you might be able to test out ext3, and then go back to ext2 if you don't get much benefit. However, things may have changed.. I think the journal is just a special (possibly hidden) file on the filesystem. There are certain benefits to using ext3, such as some of the extra file attributes (immutable, append-only, etc.) that are currently only available on ext2/3. Then again, that might be the worst possible idea ;-) The other filesystems also use different methods for laying out the actual data. ReiserFS is optimized for many, many, many small files. XFS is optimized for overall speed. ReiserFS can trounce anything when you're dealing with thousands of 30-byte files, but XFS is supposedly more well-rounded. ext2 is still the best choice if you need stability. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Can atheists get / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ insurance for acts of \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) God? [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010906/a0c09333/attachment.pgp