On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:02, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 12:41 am, James S Bear wrote:
> > I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the
> > conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason?
>
> The main reasons are, ReiserFS has a longer track record with Linux
> than other journalling FS's, and in the event of a hard reboot without
> properly shutting down it quickly restores itself without corruption
> (90+% of the time). This makes it very attractive for use on problem
> systems or those without an UPS.
ReiserFS still has some issues with RAID and with certain NFS configurations.
For ordinary home use (i.e. one desktop system or a small LAN) you should be
fine. Apparently XFS (not officially supported by MandrakeSoft) is the best
filesystem for SMB (e.g. Samba) setups.
> I have
>
> > a bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it
> > to reiser without reformatting?
>
> No, you'll have to wipe the partitions and then format them as
> ReiserFS during your re-install. AFAIK, the only journaling FS you can
> upgrade existing ext2 partitions to is ext3. 'Course even then a full
> backup would be advisable. So why not then just format ReiserFS and
> restore the system(s) from backup?
Ext2 was designed to be a very extensible filesystem, with 'hooks' allowing
other functions to be added. There are projects out there that add features
like NTFS-style compression to Ext2. Ext3 is essentially Ext2 with
journalling added. Because of this, Ext2 can be upgraded to Ext3 with no data
loss. As Tom suggested, however, a backup is still advisable.
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