I'd have to agree there. Reiser works great. After a hard lockup or power
failure you get a "reading journal entries" message for about two seconds
then up the system comes. It's good stuff. I would highly recommend it over
ext2 for sure.
-dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce E.Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Ext2 -> ReiserFS ?
>
>
> I am running ReiserFS on my main SCSI HDD (using a IDE partition for boot,
> ReisterFS as well). Even with a dirty shutdown, it bounces right back,
only
> my wintendo FAT32 has problems after a power outage. Never had to do a
fsck
> or anything, just comes right up.
>
> BR Bruce
>
> On Monday 06 August 2001 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> > Quoting John W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > I am about 99% sure that ext2 cannot be converted to reiserFS.
> > > I am sure if I am wrong someone will correct me and offer the help you
> > > need.
> >
> > ReiserFS can not be converted from ext2, you have to backup your data
and
> > reformat the drive... From what I have seen ReiserFS seems very stable,
> > much more than any of the other journaling filesystems I've tried... I
> > haven't looked at ext3 lately but the last time I tried it, it wasn't
> > ready for prime time yet.
> >
> > Julia
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