I don't know about ext3, but I have used reiserfs as / for ages with no problem and fast speed....
so I dont think you will have any problems doing that at all... I make /boot ext2 (its so small that it doesn't matter as fsck will run in about 2 seconds if there is a problem (I ought to know I had 50 crashes due to a postfix curruption the other day and none of them hurt /boot) go for it!!! rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Guntner Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Best FS to use for / ? Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it looks like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it offers the best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely missing something). I always mount a seperate /boot partition as the first filesystem, and I've used ext2 even with everything else set to a different type of FS. It just works better for me since I couldn't seem to get 8.0 to boot with a /boot that was ReiserFS. Now, I'm getting ready to do a clean install of 8.1 and will be reformatting all partitions exept for /home. I'm planning on using ext3 for /boot (since if I read it right, it's completely backwards compatable with ext2 and shouldn't give me any booting grief). Now for the big question: Should the / filesystem be something like ext3 also, or is there any downside to using ReiserFS for / as well (it's my second partition on the disk)? I'm asking because I could have sworn at one point that I read something saying that for performance (or other) reasons, the / partition would be better off being set as something non-ReiserFS. Thoughts? Comments? Experiences? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key
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