I think that you're referring to either the Reiser Journaling FS, ext3 or
the LVM. Reiser and ext3 are supposed to be much more efficient than ext2,
reiser being completely new and ext3 being the next version of ext. The LVM
is basically Partition Magic for Linux. It was incorporated in the 2.3 line
of development but also requires the LVM-utils package. The LVM deals mostly
with partitions and the differences would not be seen by the normal
programs. You create the volume groups, then the LVM logical drives, then
the filesystems. The LVM basically has all the support that it needs. Reiser
and ext3 don't show in the 2.4 kernel so I'm assuming SuSE wrote the
kernel-level support themselves. The utilities for Reiser are standard and
included with SuSE. I haven't seen anyone using ext3, although I heard that
SuSE has the support, so I don't know much about that. If you want to play
with it some more, pick up SuSE 6.4.
Hope that answers your question.
MHP
----- Original Message -----
From: Van Liedekerke Franky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'qmail list' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: linux filesystem
> A while back there was talk about a good filesystem for linux (next to
> ext2fs). Anybody remebers how this is called, and does anybody use it with
> satisfaction? I have looked through the archives, but I'm just not able to
> fill in the right search terms to find the answer...
>
> Franky
>
