Do I have to re-install the workstation?
On Wednesday, April 04, 2001 at 12:13:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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