Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: > > > >>Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some >>journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 >>(partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). > > > for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough for /boot) ext2 is good. > Everything else is pure overkill and a waste of space.
agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better > > For the rest reiserfs or ext3 should fit your needs. I am longtime reiserfs > user, so my view might be biased, but I prefer reiserfs. agree again, totally, why to use 400 Mb for /usr/portage when you can have it in 120 Mb ? Reiser 4 is a hole for the moment but reiser 3 has demonstrated to be robust for non extreme usage. > > XFS has a habit of replacing 'damaged' files with zeros, after a crash. This > is a 'security' feature, so one users data will not accidentally end in the > data of another user, but it can damage your system very badly. -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
