On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:42, Buchan Milne wrote:
> 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
so how about ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?
and why?

The advantages vs. disadvantages?

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