On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: > In the 9.0 installer, during the "Setup filesystem" stage, when you > create a new partition, by default its filesystem type is tset to ext3fs. > > Now I have to tell all the newbie converts that install Linux to > manually change it to ReiserFS, because it is a more advanced filesystem. > After all, ext3 is just ext2 with a journal strapped-on. ReiserFS is a > new vision to filesystem design. And it is faster. > > If they just used the defaults, they'd probably be disappointed with > Linux "because it it slower than my Windows". Yes, ext2 and ext3 are > slower than FAT16/32. > > So what do you think about changing the default FS type to Reiser in mdk9.1?
You are looking for trouble with this kind of arguments :-) Seriously, you have given a partial view of what ext3 is. There are serious reasons to choose it in my view, among which: a) back compatibility with ext2 (conversion to and fro on the fly and possibility of mounting clean ext3 partitions as ext2) b) not that slow for "normal use" (another thing is the server side, but you where talking about windows newbies...) c) three different types of journaling (the reiserfs team is working AFAIK to similar things, but this is still under implementation) Mind you: when comparing speed, remember that in ext3 by default a more time consuming but also more secure journaling is implemented... Biagio
