as i recall the problem had to do with reiser being a module and not compiled into the kernel,
On Thursday 16 January 2003 01:03 pm, Charlie wrote: > On January 16, 2003 08:44 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > <snip> > > > I suspect XFS kernel support is iminent. I vaguely recall that > > it's out for now because of a conflict with somethin else in the > > current kernel, tho I can't remember what that is. > > > > I've used ReiserFS and tried XFS several times for quite some time > > now (7.x). I've always gone back to ReiserFS, but I believe either is > > the preferable file system. Civileme had the same opinion. One > > caveat with either tho. It shouldn't make a differnence, but Civileme > > use to always recommend that a small ext3 /boot partition be used. > > Then any and all other partitions (/, /home, and so on) can be either > > XFS or ReiserFS. IME, this does seem to provide the best results. > > I've found ReiserFS to be faster than XFS on a desktop system. > > I'm positive you're right Tom but I can't for the life of me remember what > the conflict was. oops! > > The partition table for my system hda has an ext2 /boot (250 MB) that > hasn't been touched for over a year other than what new installs have put > there. / is ext3 and everything else XFS. On this machine XFS was the > fastest and seemed to work the best. > > I'll be changing the two disks Mandrake has lived on so I can install betas > whether Juan gets XFS going again or not. The last time I tried Reiser FS I > had trouble with this old bucket. I think that was when 7.2 Freq was the > 'latest and greatest' though. There have been improvements I'm certain. > > Questions: I've been considering making hdb all ext3 so I won't have to > touch it again for a while. > Or should it be Reiser? > To this point that drive has been a sort of "holding tank" for images, > downloads, music, miscellaneous what evers. I made the first half of it > (after I cleared it) ext3 when I was first fooling with beta1. It's a 60 GB > Maxtor. Four duplicates in fact but Mandrake only gets to play with the > first two. Would you recommend making it all ext3, or all Reiser? > Either is acceptable since it doesn't take much longer to do the back half > than to do it all. > > Since I'll have to do a lot of swapping of directories and files before I > touch another install; and I'll have to do a complete back-up of /home in > order to change it from XFS to Reiser or ext3 I'd like advice on what would > be the safest bet for the file system to use please. I can use part of the > other two disks to do the "back-up" of the Mandrake two but I don't want to > start until I'm sure I won't have to do it again in a week or ten days when > the next beta comes along. > > Or should I do the b-ups, format those two disks, and install the latest > cooker for testing? Either way I'll lose the install of 9.0 I have so it > matters not to me. I'd just like to use a file system that I can stay with. > > Thanks. > > Regards;
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