>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kiran > >I have had 4 ext3 filesystems just die on me on 3 different machines >only once was I able to recover by removing the journal, fsck'ing and >rebuilding it. I won't use it again I'd use ext2(probably the same >amount of grief in three times the time) before ext3. I have however had >no problems with reiserfs in the last year or so. And that includes alot >of unplanned/emergency shutdowns/poweroffs/powerlosses etc on both my >laptop and desktop. YMMV.
-----New Message----- I started using ReiserFS when I switched from RH6.x to mandrake 7.2. (oddly enough I swapped to mdk because i liked the fact that they had defaulted to Postfix as MTA and I was sick of sendmail.cf and M4's) Back then there were serious problems with reiser and postfix. (for example setting a limit on mail size in postfix resulted in a big log of error messages and mail got held up.) I needed a size limit because my users were sending 10MB p0rn and word docs all over the place.. So in the end i had to redo that partition as EXT2. There were also NFS problems with Reiser back then as well. As I understand, both those issues have been resolved since then. I swapped to EXT3 when I started using mdk8.2, mostly because I heard that RH had choosen it as their default FS for stability and backwards compatibility with EXT2. Since then I have had some small issues with FS errors on crashes and locked machine reboots. (nothing I wasn't able to fix by booting the rescue CD and fscking the partitions.) I plan to swap to Reiserfs when I upgrade to 9.2, if the problems it had are really all sorted now, It would be the better choice. But I plan on trying XFS on a spare partition as well, because I want to get the hang of ACL's in linux. regards Franki
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