Actually, yeah, I knew that reiserfs has been picked up by and is being maintained by a development team. I had also heard that it was PITA. Nevertheless, when I looked at multiple web pages that described installing backtrack recommended using reiserfs. I don't know why, but I just assumed that reiserfs must be the best fs for backtrack. I also knew that I could use Ext3. I guess I didn't realize how much of a PITA that reiser could be. So I think I will just go along with your reccomendation and use Ext3. I think I'll wait on Ext 4 until they work the bugs out. Thanks
Anyways, I think the main thing I could use help with is finding a website where I can get the backtrack installer tool. Anyone? Thanks On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > Using ReiserFS you will definitely learn. Honestly its like going to > the school of hard knocks. While that is a very worthy thing for > anyone to do I personally would highly suggest that you use EXT3(old > faithful), EXT4(speed), or XFS(great for large files). Reisers is a > completely good, stable file system, but when there is an issue it > becomes such a PITA. When you are talking about data go with the safe > bet. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Paul Saenz<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Also what is the best tool for formatting to reiserfs? The reason > > I ask that question is because, although I am not certain, but > > it seems to me that some fs writers do a more thorough job than > > others. What that means, I don't exactly know. All I know is that > > some seem to do it in seconds, while others seem to take a much > > longer time. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that it would be > > more likely to lose data with the quick ones. > > > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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