On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:21 pm, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
> > I also recommend reiserfs.
> >
> > I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to
> > reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root
> > filesystem (325000-350000 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes
> > usually. With reiserfs, that time is down to 6-7 minutes. It just
> > can't be beat (IMO) for handling lots and lots of small files.
>
> In terms of reliability (I manage servers for a living ;-), I have never
> had any problems with ext2/ext3 - it is rock solid even after crashes.
>
I'll backup what you just said about ext2/ext3. I use it extensively on
servers. It's easy to setup and very robust. For those of you waiving the
"slow poke flag", you should have a look at something other than a default
ext3 installation.
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