On 09/13 07:43 , Rob Owens wrote: > Carl, I never give my filesystems much thought. I've heard that > reiserfs is good for lots of small files (and I guess hardlinks would > qualify as small files?), but I've also heard that it's not as robust as > ext3 in the case of unplanned shutdowns. I have a lot of those, due to > having 2 small kids in my house who love to push buttons. > > Could you give me your reasons for preferring reiserfs?
2 main reasons I like Reiserfs for the BackupPC data pool: - it deals well with lots of small files. (at least in creating them). - no inode limitations, so you can have millions of files in a partition without running out of space. That said, I'm not married to it, and last I knew, Nate Carlson (hi Nate!) was happily running XFS on his backuppc installation. I'd avoid ext3 or its cousins, just because of the inode limitations. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
