On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 04:31, Dave Altonaga wrote:I got a little more curious about using reiserfs on RH9 So, I dump slackware and install RH9 using reiserfs. Things seem to run alot smoother but I'd have to credit that to only installing gnome and not all the extra stuff. But as a note I am not planning on running a file server service.I would suggest for running services to use ext3. To me I know it works great and there should not be any problems.On any given day, I'm dumping customer's HD contents to a ReiserFS partition on my server - anywhere from a few gigs upward of 50-60gb - along with the daily bits of moving around MP3's, AVI's, MPG's and SVCD's - when I was using ext3, I had a much slower go of it, but since using ReiserFS, it's definitely been smoother. This is a network file server and all the "user" homes reside on ReiserFS, IMAP lives on ReiserFS; I had been a proponent of ext3 for quite some time until I "tested" ReiserFS for that reason - now I can't/won't go back. My 2 microns.
Aftering reading on here that I can install RedHat w/ ReisferFS through "linux reiserfs" at install time, I'm re-installing it on my laptop. Now this is a fairly old laptop, it has a 366 mhz PII, 128 mb RAM, 6 gig HD, etc. Not top of the line, but snappy considering. Its not done installing but the install is going very noticably faster. Wow. I've read somewhere before that ReiserFS will breath new life into old hardware, apparently thats true. I suspect at this rate the install will finish in half the time. We shall see.
~Christopher Henderson
