Actually...reiserfs was not originally designed as a journaling file system. It was a file system (without journaling) that sped up access to small files.
So, both filesystems have had journaling added after they were initially written. -Sam On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:40:52PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 16:33, Taylor Spears wrote: > > Well, I decided to go with ReiserFS. Ext3fs just sorta seems like a hack > > to ext2 to get journaling. > > You could, I suppose, look at it one of two ways: > * ext3 is a hack on an old system > * ext2 was designed as an extensible, modular file system into which > additional features can be added; and journaling is a natural fit. > > The large group of people happy with ext3 are likely to take the second > view. > > > I also heard that ext3 is pretty slow > > compared to reiser > > Depends on the purpose. If you have directories with many entries, then > that's true. However, I understand that the ext3 driver will, at some > point, use b-tree structures internally, speeding up access to files in > large directories considerably. > > > , and they are both very reliable. However, XFS looks > > really slick. It says it uses ACL's. Are these somewhat like NT style > > ACL'L, where you can choose individual user permissions, or is it like > > the old -rwxrwxrwx type of permission system > > It's both. The standard UNIX permissions are preserved, in the form of > user, group, and world permissions. However, rather than a single entry > for each, user and group are lists. You can add additional users or > groups to any fs object and set permissions for them individually. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Sam Ockman, Chairman and CEO Tel: 415-358-2600 Fax: 415-896-6742 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING - Simplifying the Solution Process [tm] www.penguincomputing.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
