Re: Filesystems

[KoReE <koree@squishy.ameth.org>]

What are the advantages to running ext3 on your 2.2 boxen?

Koree

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> Mark said:
> > Ok, I got this 40Gig drive today - just in time for 2.4.3.  Now, how does
> > ext2 stack up with reiserFS?  
> 
> It mostly sucks, other than the fact that it is stable.  I'm still
> hearing stories about people losing entire filesystems running
> reiserfs.  Apparently it's also a royal pain because the on-disk
> format isn't 100% fixed, so you have to upgrade the userspace
> utilities (fsck & such) nearly every time you upgrade the kernel. 
> That said, I'm sure the stability problems will get worked out pretty
> quickly.
> 
> Personally, I'm still running ext2 on 2.4 boxes, and ext3 on most of
> my 2.2 boxes.
> 
> Of course, you always can try SGI's xfs, IBM's jfs, etc., etc...
> 
> Steve
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