On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:07:21PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:49:26PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > looking at the output of 'df', I decided to buy a new hard drive for my > > Pismo > > soon. Now, given the size of hard drives today, It just doesn't seem to be > > wise to use ext2 anymore. I also often read that Michel Daenzer, Jason > > why? there is nothing wrong with ext2 and large filesystems. > ReiserFS is primarily driven by uneducated hype right now. its not > very mature and its not terribly safe either. the 2.4 kernel has had > a nasty habit of corrupting reiserfs, and reiserfsck is totally > worthless right now (it makes things worse not better). > > > Stewart, and other people are running their machine with ReiserFS. > > they are playing on the bleeding edge and probably have good backups. > > > I installed Debian from the official Potato-CD-Set and distupgraded to > > woody. > > I've no idea though how to install Debian on a ReiserFS system on a blank > > hard drive. I mean, I obviously cannot just use another set of boot > > floopies > > like I could on a PC laptop. > > > > I'd appreciate some hints about how to get Debian successfully running on a > > ReiserFS system. How do I have to set partitions best? What about a dual > > install - MacOS and Linux? Does yaboot need an extra ext2 partition like > > lilo > > does? > > it sounds to me like you want a more reliable filesystem, for this > purpose you do NOT want reiserfs yet. i would stick with ext2 which > is a very mature, stable and reliable filesystem NOW. wait for > Reiserfs to grow up a bit more. you may actually be more interested > in XFS in a bit then in reiserfs. XFS actually makes more sense from > the huge filesystem/disk size angle anyway. > > but don't buy into reiserfs solely on hype. at least wait for it to > have a fsck that actually works. and no journalling fs does NOT mean > `you never need fsck!' that is a pure unadulterated lie^H^H^Hmyth.
Err, does not fsck just do what is already done when a reiserfs is being mounted, without the mounting phase ? That said, reiserfs is great when doing Xfree driver work, I didn't experience any more loss of whole files since i got to it, admittedly on i386. Now i guess i could have run ext2 in sync also to achieve the same result. Friendly, Sven Luther
