On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 at 09:26, A. M. Varon wrote:
> >Have you tried ext3(ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs)? twas
> >developed by stephen tweed of redhat. a newer version was released a
> >couple of days ago. Have installed it in two production debian linux
> >boxes(one is a squid proxy server.) and so far, it works like a charm.
>
> I just downloaded the ext3 source recently. Haven't checked it out,
> though. What tools do you use for ext3? Also, would you know if there's a
> way to "upgrade" an ext2 partition, without wiping out all the data?
>
> About ReiserFS: last I heard a lot of ReiserFS upgrades require you to
> wipe out your data and reformat (or something like that), can anyone
> confirm or contradict this?
Reiser has stabilised since the days when a new version needed a new fs format
on the partition. In any case, if you intend to use reiser, don't roll your
own. Choose a distro that already has it (read: SuSE, or Mandrake 7.1). I've
installed MDK 7.1, chose all reiserfs partitions, and installation was
flawless. I'm particular about not having to do tech support calls to clients
who accidentally have power cut of to the server... \8)
IMHO Mandrake 7.1 has the most goodies among all the distros right now. Perl
5.6, XFree 4.0, ReiserFS, and if you're tempted, the UDMA66 patches of Andre
Hedrick are also all folded into the kernel.
> Aside from the benefits recovering from a crash, what else does a
> journalling file system offer? Is it any faster? Or OTOH is it a little
> slower? :)
Some say that the data structures of reiser would make access much faster if
you had a lot of small files. Something which is typical of a squid cache
directory. I haven't been able to benchmark this with bonnie++, though.
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