On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> Tom,
> Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had
> any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell
> and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser.
> Mostly because of what I'd been reading here on the list. as I
> understood it Reiser was concerned mostly with the metadata of the
> files and not the entire file itself, whereas XFS looked after the
> entire file. header and content together and was able to recover
> both if necessary.
> am I wrong in my understanding?
> Mark
Heck if I know!! ;) All I know is I experienced some little
gremlins here'n there with XFS, and I don't with Reiser. Mostly file
transfer problems to vfat partitions, and occasional FS error
messages while shutting down. Probly specific to my hardware, or my
keyboard/mouse/chair interface ;)
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