Just to throw some weight the other way, since this seems to be a preferences thread. I've had wonderful experience with ReiserFS on both laptop and desktop machines. If you have the time and a free disk, I heartily suggest you give it a try. I think you'll probably not go back. On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:13:24 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:27, Christian Aust wrote: > > Arnold Krille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:44:24 > +0200: > > > Just one little question: WHY do you want to do this??? > > > From my personal experience: ext3 is _much_ better than reiserfs! > > > Its backward compatible, so you can easily fix it with ext2-tools, which > > > isn't the case with reiserfs and which is the reason why I switched from > > > reiserfs to ext3 as my reiserfs had faults no one could repair... > > full ACK with what you've mentioned about rescue system and such, but in my > > case I'm using 2.4 rescue disks only which happen to have reiserfs support > > from my experience the only rescuedisc you find in case of an > emergency is the oldest ;-) > > > (i.e. Knoppix). Also I found that reiserfs performs much better than ext3 > > on the computers where I've tried it. And performance is one of my top > > concerns for everyday use on my laptop. > > Don't know about performance but my ext3 don't feel slower than > reiserfs, espacially as on most modern laptops more and more ide > work is done from the processor and so every filesystem is slower afaik. > > > So I'd like to give reiserfs a try on the laptop, too. Best regards, > > Do it if you want, but my bad experiences with reiserfs where on my > every_days_work laptop where its not possible to add another disc > for temporary backup... > > Arnold > > -- > Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de > --- > Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature > and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root > and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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