hi, There may be others more "expert" than me about this, but I have tried Reiserfs on Mandrake 7.1. Anyway, as far as I know: 1) I don't know what "advanced file system" means, although Reiserfs is a good guess. 2) ext3 is not ready for production use, but you can try it by patching and rebuilding the kernel. 3) You can't convert a ext2 partition to reiserfs, what you do is back up all the data on the partition and unmount it, then create a reiserfs file system (thus blowing away the data) then update /etc/fstab to add the partition as reiserfs, then copy all the data back. Reiserfs is excellent if you have a large partition with lots of small files, since its performance is on par with ext2 in reading small files, and performs a little slower than ext2 when reading large files (but with the added benefit of journaling). John Craig Christopher Kolar wrote: > Hi everyone. While not really a professional sysadmin, fortune has > dictated that I run several servers that, to the people that they are > running for, are in "production" mode. I have had really good luck to date > (that would be the past 5 years), but I am now getting pretty interested in > using a journaling file system. A few questions: > > 1. Is the advanced file system mentioned in the Mandrake installation Reiser? > > 2. What is the status of running ext3 on an existing Mdk installation? I > have found some stuff about v 0.0.3 and it involved some kernel > patching. If I am just running plain old 7.1 with ext2 what would be > involved in getting it up to ext3? > > 3. Am I right in thinking that once you are running ext2, there is no way > to convert those volumes to reiserFS? > > Sorry if these questions seem pretty basic, I spend most of my time running > internet services and once a box is up and running I normally give no > thought to the hardware or file system. Thanks in advance, > > --chris > > -- > /////\\\\\/////\\\\\ > Christopher G. Kolar > Director, Department of Instructional Technology > Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.aurora.edu/~ckolar > [PGP Public Key ID: 0xC6492C72] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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