Hi S.! On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> I have looked at the various file system stuff for comparison. I have been > using Reiserfs for some time now and had, until recently, no problems. What problems exactly? > Are Xfs and Jfs still too new to use? No, they are quite mature filesystems and finally well integrated into the linux kernel. > > I have used ext3 for my / partition. But I can't remember who told me I should > do that or why. Is it a good idea or is Reiserfs fine. Ext3 is slower as far as I know. Reiserfs is quite stable. I've had the feeling that JFS was faster when it comes to accessing larger files and reading large directories, I mean with many files. I have never actually tried ext3 but have read that it has many problems as well and is quite slow. The On-disk-layout is very old already. Axel > > (Other partitions are /swap, /usr, and /home. swap as swap, and the others are > reiserfs.) ____________________________________________________________________________ Axel Siebenwirth phone +49 3641 776807 | Am Birnstiel 3 axel at pearbough dot net | 07745 Jena | Germany________________________________________________http://pearbough.net | Peeping Tom: A window fan. ____________________________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
