On Wednesday 21 June 2006 14:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:52:20PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote: > > Thank you, Tom, for the comparison. I have used ext3 but became > > disenchanted when I found it liked to do an old ext2 fsck on boot every > > so often according to some magic number. I tried both xfs and jfs > > without much joy. At the time (perhaps two years ago now) grub would not > > boot with xfs as the boot partition file format. I learned that I could > > use reiserfs as the boot partition file format if I made the partition > > sufficiently large, which is not a problem with today's hard drives. I > > can't remember why jfs gave little joy. These days I use reiserfs with > > much joy. I don't understand the problem that others are having with it. > > My systems are lightly loaded workstations and servers. I do not use any > > data base systems. That is going to change as soon as I can figure out > > how to use MySQL and PostgreSQL. > > The time between fsck's is not magic in ext3. it is right in the > information you get from tune2fs, and adjustable with the same tool > (including turning them off entirely). > > As for reiserfs, well I have been burned by its design in the past, and > don't trust it anymore. I recently read that apparently they now > support ordered writes, which would probably elliminate the cause of the > data loss I had from it. Certainly ext3 uses ordered writes by default, > and I haven't lost data to it yet. I still think any FS that doesn't > have a reliable safe recovery tool isn't worth using. So reiserfs is > out for me.
Sad to read about that, after having reiserfs as filesystem on all my partitions (except precious data - my papers and my database - that I extra-save on a 25 years old external scsi HD as vfat). I understand that going back means doing everything, except partitions, ex novo. Now that I have even set up the measurement of temperatures. Is tout le monde convinced? cheers francesco > > Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
