On Thursday 25 December 2003 8:43 am, Spider wrote: > Not really, overall I advice against ReiserFS because of their horrid > recovery-tools. Jfs I've had mixed success with but overall it felt > good. I haven't evaluated xfs because so far it hasn't been mainline > when I've started to work on repartitioning. > > Ext3 isn't the fastest in the race, but it has a darn good support team. > That matters a lot for me. > //Spider
I've been following this discussion, and must differ with Spider, even though I'm sure he knows much more Linux than I do. At least in my case (desktop/home usage box), I originally used ext2/3. About a year ago, I switched all my boxes over to reiserfs, and the improvement in responsiveness and overall speed was, in a word, drastic- so much so that I would never consider going back ( I do use ext3 on my Gentoo /boot partition). I've never lost one bit of data when having to do a reboot after a lockup (I do lots of kernel and app testing with Gentoo ~x86 systems, and Mandrake cooker). The reiserfs journaling has always worked perfectly for me. I do work with generally small files, which reiser is suppose to excel at. I generally defer to Spider's expertise, but since it became clear that he was not a reiserfs fan, I thought I'd offer a different opinion, based on my personal experience with reiserfs. As usual, YMMV, and reiserfs might not be the best choice in all cases. Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
