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. >
Besides all the other arguments: ext3 has quotas (ok, non-root users can't check them, but they are enforced), and ACLs (when mounted with the 'acl' option). XFS is probably the only other FS I would consider, mainly since it has a working dump, which also preserves metadata (like acls). > 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. > Corporate users will miss features that have been available since Windows NT (ACLs) and Windows 2000 finally supports quotas. The only two filesystems that can compare with NTFS5 are XFS and ext3. The OS to beat isn't win9x anymore, and hasn't been for a long time ... the OSs to beat are win2k Server, winxp pro and the upcoming Windows.net > So what do you think about changing the default FS type to Reiser in > mdk9.1? > IMHO, when it works, has quotas and acl support, and performs better in most or all areas then ext3. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
