Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:43, daRcmaTTeR wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had any 
> trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell and when I 
> loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. Mostly because of 
> what I'd been reading here on the list. as I understood it Reiser was 
> concerned mostly with the metadata of the files and not the entire file 
> itself, whereas XFS looked after the entire file. header and content 
> together and was able to recover both if necessary. 
> 
> am I wrong in my understanding?
> 
> Mark

Unless something has changed over the last 5 months or so, it was my
understanding that data journaling was only available with ext3.  That
means that everything  else out there are metadata journaling or
variants thereof.

If there is new info available I stand to be corrected.

--LX

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