On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 at 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First time I heared about this... Can anyone give me some basic info?
> How do I change the Ext2 FS to riser FS? I am using Mandrake 7.2.
It's ReiserFS, and they normally put it as one word with the exact casing
I'm using. Just trivial. Anyway, you can check out the ReiserFS homepage
either via <http://www.namesys.com/> or <http://www.reiserfs.org/>. I'm
not quite sure (you can do a traceroute), but the latter seems to be
slower for "US-connected" countries like us. I read something in the site
before about that server being in Russia. It could have changed, though,
so just check which of the two is faster. I prefer the first URL.
Like Dido said as of now there is no non-destructive way to convert an
ext2fs partition to ReiserFS. You will need to re-make your filesystem
using mkreiserfs. Even switching between hashes (say, an old tea hash to
the newer and seemingly preferred r5 hash) needs a re-make. :)
For the full technical writeup on ReiserFS check out the website. I have a
shorter writeup on it, though. This is based purely on my experience with
it, no theoretical digging here:
1. It recovers from unclean unmounts (ie: power down without shutting
down) much faster than non-journalling filesystems like ext2fs.
2. It pushes the disk subsystem much further than ext2fs, and seems to
cache more aggressively, therefore I've gotten much better performance.
3. I have yet to be able to find a way to mark a particular directory as
sync (ie: with chattr, but chattr doesn't seem to work with ReiserFS).
This is important for stuff like a mail spool that deals with a lot of
small files that could vanish into thin air should a power down occur
while the message is in transit.
--> Jijo
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