Mick wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:40:48 -0600 >> >> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Philip Webb wrote: >>> >>>> 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote: >>>> >>>>> - ReiserFS looks unsupported now >>>>> >>>> What do you base that assessment on ? It's true >>>> that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal >>>> problems, but RFS 3 is still well-supported as a Gentoo pkg, isn't >>>> it ? When I installed Gentoo on my new desktop machine recently, >>>> I used RFS 3 for everything except /boot (which is Ext2). >>>> >>> I too use ReiserFS for everything but /boot. I used to use it for >>> that but the 32MB thing sort of got me to change it to ext3. I have >>> had no problems with file system errors. I have three hard drives >>> and 9 partitions, 8 are ReiserFS, and it works great. I may even give >>> ReiserFS 4 a shot in the future. I'm not sure if it is even being >>> developed any more tho. Anybody hear anything on that? >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) :-) >>> >> I, too, use reiserfs for everything I can. EXT3, the last time I used >> it, is much slower, Sure, you can tweak it, but you can do that to >> Reiser too. I trust it now, and don't intend to switch to anything >> else any time soon. >> >> I have always found this FS review well presented and very useful: >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 >> > > Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . > . > especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these. > > Has anyone got a particularly good experience with XFS vs e.g. Reiserfs? > What > about JFS? >
My only experience with XFS was a nightmare. It's good if you have a UPS that will take care of power outages but it does not like a sudden power failure. Reiserfs doesn't seem to mind the failure of a local power company. The rig that did have XFS on it got a reinstall with reiserfs. It was running Mandrake and had no UPS with several power failures after which it would no longer boot up. I'm not saying not to use XFS, just pointing out a weakness that I found. Dale :-) :-) :-)
