On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, at 7:12pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Probably, the best thing that ext3 has going for it is its compatibility > with ext2.
Yah. I would also go so far as to say that EXT3 is the most robust (in terms of implementation) journaling filesystem available on Linux. Not because XFS or Reiser suck (they don't), but simply because EXT2/3 has been around on Linux longest, and the people maintaining it are in a position to be the most familiar with Linux. The maintainers are also *very* conservative, which can be a Good Thing when you're talking about code stability. ReiserFS doesn't suck. It also has some things EXT3 doesn't have, like better handling of large directories. We've got a customer with a 550 GB ReiserFS filesystem they've had for well over two years, and it has never given us any trouble. (We picked ReiserFS because 2.4 wasn't stable at the time and XFS (which also handles large directories well) wasn't available on 2.2.) > ReiserFS has some advantages is that they optimize small files so less > space is wasted. Yah, ReiserFS calls them "tails". Mounting with tails turned off is a standard practice for many, though, since they tend to really drag down performance. At least in the current implementation. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
