On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Andy Sy wrote: .. > Anyone here using IBM's JFS, SGI's XFS, or reiserfs in > lieu of ext3fs?
have been using reiser for ages [3 years+], even on production (oracle) boxes. performance of course is superior to ext2 (at that time). > How do the three compare in terms of performance, > compatibility and stability? Any reason why we shouldn't > chuck ext3fs in favor of one of these more modern filesystems > already? 1) reiserfs cannot recover from media errors: you bad-sector your drive, you lose most/all your data! whereas ext2/ext3 can "force read" past the bad blocks, so you can recover 2) ext3 can be mounted as ext2 if you need to do some rescue and your rescue floppy don't support ext3 3) there's a VxD out there so you can read ext2 partitions from Windoze (useful to some, not so useful to others..) and, PartitionMagic can resize ext2/ext3 partitions. i haven't tried XFS at all though. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
