On Thursday January 16 2003 12:03 pm, Charlie wrote:
> 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!
I've had a brain disease for goin on 14 years (MS), what's your
excuse ? ;ppppp
> 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've for quite a while used either XFS or Reiser for /, and most
all other partitions.
> 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.
Foggy again but I believe a 2.4.21pre3 is close, an I think XFS
support is back in. FWIW tho (IMO), Reiser has always enjoyed better
kernel support than XFS. Not a Mandrake deal, a Linus and the
kernel.org crew deal.
> 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?
My vote, NOT ext3. I've got a few ext3 stragglers (I re-partition a
lot). MOF there was just a 1 hour power outage, the UPS saved me, but
when I have had to do a hard reset, ext3 is not much better than ext2
for recovering. It's just ext2 with a fake journal sort'a deal tagged
on.
> 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.
As above, I'd go all Reiser (except for a small /boot). The ext3
parts I'm still stuck with (also on large Maxtors) are mostly storage
parts for mp3's, movies, etc. The only reason they're still ext3 is
I'd rather not have to copy those files back from (40) CD bakups.
Since they're fairly static, recovery from a hard reset isn't a big
deal.
> 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.
Again ReiserFS. BTW, tho I've started usin a separate /home, I
still regularly (at least weekly) back up /home to another drive.
> 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.
IMO, two choices, either Reiser or XFS. For a work station
(desktop), I've found Reiser to be the better choice. I've read, as
Stephen suggested, that XFS is better for large file servers. I
don't think it enjoys as much support as Reiser does from the
kernel.org people tho.
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