On January 16, 2003 08:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: <snip> > I suspect XFS kernel support is iminent. I vaguely recall that > it's out for now because of a conflict with somethin else in the > current kernel, tho I can't remember what that is. > > I've used ReiserFS and tried XFS several times for quite some time > now (7.x). I've always gone back to ReiserFS, but I believe either is > the preferable file system. Civileme had the same opinion. One > caveat with either tho. It shouldn't make a differnence, but Civileme > use to always recommend that a small ext3 /boot partition be used. > Then any and all other partitions (/, /home, and so on) can be either > XFS or ReiserFS. IME, this does seem to provide the best results. > I've found ReiserFS to be faster than XFS on a desktop system.
I'm positive you're right Tom but I can't for the life of me remember what the conflict was. oops! The partition table for my system hda has an ext2 /boot (250 MB) that hasn't been touched for over a year other than what new installs have put there. / is ext3 and everything else XFS. On this machine XFS was the fastest and seemed to work the best. I'll be changing the two disks Mandrake has lived on so I can install betas whether Juan gets XFS going again or not. The last time I tried Reiser FS I had trouble with this old bucket. I think that was when 7.2 Freq was the 'latest and greatest' though. There have been improvements I'm certain. Questions: I've been considering making hdb all ext3 so I won't have to touch it again for a while. Or should it be Reiser? To this point that drive has been a sort of "holding tank" for images, downloads, music, miscellaneous what evers. I made the first half of it (after I cleared it) ext3 when I was first fooling with beta1. It's a 60 GB Maxtor. Four duplicates in fact but Mandrake only gets to play with the first two. Would you recommend making it all ext3, or all Reiser? Either is acceptable since it doesn't take much longer to do the back half than to do it all. Since I'll have to do a lot of swapping of directories and files before I touch another install; and I'll have to do a complete back-up of /home in order to change it from XFS to Reiser or ext3 I'd like advice on what would be the safest bet for the file system to use please. I can use part of the other two disks to do the "back-up" of the Mandrake two but I don't want to start until I'm sure I won't have to do it again in a week or ten days when the next beta comes along. Or should I do the b-ups, format those two disks, and install the latest cooker for testing? Either way I'll lose the install of 9.0 I have so it matters not to me. I'd just like to use a file system that I can stay with. Thanks. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Only one, but it takes a long time, and the light bulb has to really want to change.
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