A journaling fielsystem is the only way to go on any computer, but i have
found some apps to be finicky about the filesystem within wich they operate.
Namely Win4Lin allowing you to run win98 in linux as an application.
My results thus far concerning Journaling and Win4Lin:
ext3 === Yes Slow but functional
Reiserfs === No/? I have ran across a few sucess storys, but have been
unsussesful myself. From what i have learned the "no-tails"
option is
mandatory.
JFS === ? Not yet tried
XFS === Yes This has become my setup of choice, offers a very
advanced / hardened journaling filesystem, exclent disk i/o
performance
and Win4Lin thus far seems to be quite cooperative in its
enviroment.
(note bootloaders; lilo & grub will not function on a XFS partion if your
setup requires locating these bootloaders in a partion rather than the MBR
make a little reiserfs /boot partion)
This was tested in Mandrake 8.1 kernel 2.4.8 XF86 4.1.0 kde 2.2 on both intel
and amd platforms.
Hopes this helps, for an ecclent review of Journoling File Systems try these
article done by the linuz@gazzett
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/dellomodarme.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html
Brent Hasty
