Ditto Damians remarks. It's a fairly subjective choice with lots of strongly held opinions.
I use a number of different file systems on a number of distributions. RH7.3: ext2 for boot and ext3 for everything else. Never any problems can convert ext2 to ext3 (which is a journaling fs) non-destructively. My subjective impression is that it's slower than the two other journaling sytems I describe below. Mandrake 8.2: Reiser and ext2. I did have a filecorruption problem a long time ago with the reiser fs but it was fixed without any lost data by reiserfsck. Gentoo 1.2: ext2 (for boot) and XFS. Gentoo is very negative about Reiser and offers kernel source optimized for XFS. So I went that route. No problems to date (about 2 months for my main system). Seems about as quick as Reiser. The problem is that RH 7.3 doesn't support XFS and so I can't mount my XFS partitions under RH (but I can mount RH under gentoo which is generally how I'm running). YMMV. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:26, Damian G wrote: > On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500 > Jim Fazio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > List, > > Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should > > use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm > > trying to research which is "best", but only finding older material. > > Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default > > now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. > > > > TIA, > > Jim F > > well, this is usually something like "which is better KDE or Gnome" > however, for what i know, all of them work quite well, ReiserFS > is supposed to be the fastest, however i notice little or no difference, > and it is the only one that has ever crapped out on me -- after > 20 or so consecutive unclean shutdowns -- some PAM files broke and the > installation started refusing all logins, so i had to reinstall on that > machine. > > And, i've heard wonders about XFS. it is regarded as the best by many > people, and it probably is the one i'll attempt to break next :o) > > Damian > -- > boot into windows? > what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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