On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:31, Michael Loftis wrote: >--On March 25, 2006 3:19:03 PM -0700 Michael Loftis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: >> I'd tend to recommend ReiserFS or XFS first (to me Reiser is better, >> XFS second...Reiser seems to handle corruption a little better, >> except in the case of tail corruption in which case you lose all >> the tails on the filesystem possibly), followed by ext3. Ext2 isn't >> an option because for 500+G you need journalling. > >I should also note that I say reiser's tools are better because they >actually fix the filesystem. XFS we've had filesystems never quite > fix after needing to be fixed by the xfs tools. They kept coming up > with more errors, or crashing the machine despite the filesystem > checking out as 'fine' after forcing a full check. > That wasn't the case the last time I tangled with a fubar'd reiserfs, but in fairness, I will say that this was probably >4 years back too. A lot can be done in 4 years.
>> Reiser will take a while to mount such a large filesystem....As may >> XFS. I haven't treied anything that big recently with ext3 but you >> can try it...though I'm kind of interested now so I might see >> myself. My benchmarks would be out of whack with yours though >> because of CPU and storage backend differences. :) > >-- >"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its > possessors into trouble of all kinds." >-- Samuel Butler -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
