Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2007-11-17 at 22:29 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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I found the reference/comments about ext3 and Reiserfs, both used as
'defaults' in openSuse, interesting to say the least.
Yep. I can understand the problem with fast deletion, but not that you
can get corruption in reiserfs due to the large files used. Weird
claim, I'd wish they'd explain it in detail.
I am not that deep into the technicalities of file systems for Linux so
have simply accepted what was stated, and will have to leave any
querying of the claim to someone more knowledgeable than I.
Because I am installing (ie, trying to) on a 'test' computer, I have
formatted the HDs with XFS and installed v10.3 on this 'test' system.
(v10.3 with all the apps. I installed is running VERY well on XFS.)
I'd personally install the system on ext3 or reiserfs, and a large
data partition using xfs. Xfs has known problems if installed as the
main partition: for instance, during the 10.3 beta or rc phase it
produced a corrupted filesystem because the halt sequence halted
before all processes were stopped or killed and thus the fs was not
cleanly umounted. That's not a big deal in itself: both reiserfs and
ext3 did recover fine on next boot; but xfs failed reconstruction and
the whole install failed. There was a bugzilla about this and a thread
in the factory list.
So I do avoid having xfs as root filesystem, but I do use it for data.
Much safer.
You always provide good advice so I will follow what you have suggested
when I actually format the HDs and install 10.3 on my "production" system.
BTW, JFS is NOT available in v10.3.
I'm not surprised.
Well, I was. JFS is actually selectable, in the partitioning option, but
when you do select it a menu comes up stating that it is not supported
(with the suggestion that if do you select it then "yous buy your ticket
and yous take your chances"). [The complete choices of file systems to
format your HDs/partitions are: ext2, ext3, JFS, Reiser, FAT, XFS, Swap.]
Oh, I was use the Expert option to partition/format my HDs so do not
know what the default file system would be if a "newbie" simply accepts
what the installation process suggests.
And speaking of "newbies", do not give the Live CD of 10.3 to your
friends to try out 10.3 without first warning them not try and install
it (using the Install on the Desktop) because, after going through all
the motion and all the time of installing it, they won't be able to boot
into it: there will be an error message which states, "Filename must be
either an absolute pathname or blocklist". Luvly stuff.
Ciao.
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