On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:33:15PM -0400, Harry G wrote: >I am going to be setting up a new workstation, probably with Suse. I >have a little experience with ext 3 file system (OK so far) but are >there any advantages of one over the other? File integrity is the >prime consideration, as apposed to speed.
I haven't much experience with extended file systems other than reiserfs, just a bit with ext3 recently. My experience with reiserfs has been bad on my laptop running Caldera 3.1 Workstation. At some point the file system became corrupted, and the system would panic during the boot process. I was able to boot using ``init=/bin/sh'', run reiserfsck (or whatever it's called), and get the system bootable agail. I immediately copied the reiserfs to a spare partition of identical size, but as ext2 (we always create a small ext2 /boot and two identical 2.5gb partitions for the OS and a backup when originally installing the systems). I added the new file system to /boot/grub/menu.lst and edited its /etc/fstab file so that it was available if necessary as a backup. Shortly after doing this, the reiserfs hosed itself again so I made the ext2 file system the default. An interesting tidbit is that the ext2 file system appears to be less efficient than reiser as there was less free space on the copied file system than the reiserfs one. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin http://jefraskin.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
