Rob, I have used both ext3 and reiser. In fact, I recently switched over to reiser from ext3 because I migrated to using LVM. Reiser really shines in the fact that you can resize it on the fly. With ext3 I would have had to unmount the partition to add (or remove) space from it. This usually won't be an issue if this is your home system and you don't mind rebooting, or if you don't make changes to your partitions very often.
As far as ease of switching goes, you can use tune2fs to just add journals to your existing partitions, remount them as ext3, and you are off. - Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Hudson Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:36 AM To: EUGLUG Subject: [eug-lug]journaling filesystems The next time I install Linux on my desktop, I plan on using a journaled filesystem. If you all could indulge me, I'd like to hear about what journaled filesystem you're running and how it fares. I'm thinking about ext3 simply b/c it seems like an easy switch from ext2, and looks like it doesn't even need to format the drive. XFS just got included in the 2.4 kernel... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107088371607817&w=2 I think there is also ReiserFS. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
