On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:19:58 +0800, Jhun Bacala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been reading a lot of good reviews about ReiserFS. Thus mandrake
> support this kind of file system?
Mandrake was one of the first distros to include ReiserFS, and it has been
supported since Mandrake 7.1 (released around June 2000). Unless you're doing
some fancy stuff with LVM, NFS or RAID, ReiserFS should work with no problems.
It is the most mature journalling filesystem for GNU/Linux, and it is quite
speedy and space-efficient. It has served me very well for about six months now.
ReiserFS has been an official part of Linux since version 2.4.1.
> Is this the future of file system? Can anyone testify how good it is?
The "future" of filesystems for GNU/Linux shall consist of more than one
filesystem. Ext3 is a journalling version of Ext2, and is fully
backwards-compatible with Ext2. JFS is IBM's filesystem, originally designed for
their AIX version of UNIX. XFS is SGI's filesystem for IRIX, rewritten for
GNU/Linux. Of these, Ext3 and JFS will be included in Mandrake 8.1 (along with
Ext2 and ReiserFS). XFS is scheduled to be added to Linux in the 2.5 development
series. Work on Reiser4 (the successor to ReiserFS 3) has recently begun, and is
due to be completed on 30 September 2002.
> Thanks
>
> Jhun Bacala
> New City Commercial Corporation
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