Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem,(a step further)

2002-04-10 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
It's me again with some conclusions. First of all, the problem has nothing to do with the SCSI card (remember my linux os runs on a IDE disk but I also have a scsi card). The fact I can't get to my scsi-card BIOS anymore is due to the fact that the PCI slots share IRQs. My old AHA-2940

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem,(a step further)

2002-04-08 Thread Guy Zelck
Guy Zelck wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:06, Guy Zelck wrote: I've installed it and ran it for 6H without any errors popping up. I personally don't believe it's the memory which is in fault. As if the devil was involved I had a freeze again just after boot-up. I

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-04-02 Thread James
Lyvim, 100% correct on all accounts. One extra point... Some people cant/don't discharge through static band correctly. (about 1 out of a 1000) High natural levels of static. Make sure that the wrist band is on with the metal tab connecting to the bottom of your wrist not the top as hair

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-30 Thread Guy Zelck
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:06, Guy Zelck wrote: I've installed it and ran it for 6H without any errors popping up. I personally don't believe it's the memory which is in fault. As if the devil was involved I had a freeze again just after boot-up. I followed the Alt-SysRq-...

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread Guy Zelck
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:26, Guy Zelck wrote: ---snip--- Interesting thread I thought to post my troubles with XFS to. When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which never gave me trouble, to using xfs which I knew from work having it on our

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
Guy Zelck wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:26, Guy Zelck wrote: ---snip--- Interesting thread I thought to post my troubles with XFS to. When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which never gave me trouble, to using xfs which I knew from work

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread Guy Zelck
civileme wrote: Guy Zelck wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:26, Guy Zelck wrote: ---snip--- Interesting thread I thought to post my troubles with XFS to. When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which never gave me trouble, to using xfs which

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
SNIP I've installed it and ran it for 6H without any errors popping up. I personally don't believe it's the memory which is in fault. As if the devil was involved I had a freeze again just after boot-up. I followed the Alt-SysRq-... sequence to finally reboot but then again I had my KDE

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread Kyle McDonald
*when I do 8.2 this weekend, it will be reiser on raid 1 across both disks! On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 18:17, Guy Zelck wrote: While RAID 1 is a good idea, it really only protects against hardware failure. If your FS driver scrambles bits on your filesystem, the scrambled bits will be

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread Guy Zelck
J. Craig Woods wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: I believe Civilme's exact words on Ext3 were: An abortion waiting to happen. I quoteth. ;p Femme -- Like so many different variations on your machine, filesytems should be made with reference to as many criteria as possible. Yes, speed is good

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Attn: Civeleme and J. Craig Woods (and others): I've started this page to accumulate information about filesystems, including some sort of comparative rating of journaling filesystems: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxFilesystems It is intended to be more or less a summary rather

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: J. Craig Woods -- (is there a short form of your name that you use?) -- I'm not sure if I know what you mean by the attribs -- I assume you mean the -rwxrwxrwx permissions on a typical Linux file. Does this also include the concepts of owner and group? (i.e., reiser

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods wrote: File attributes are not file permissions. File permissions, as most of us know, are the means by which we can assign read, write, and execute permissions to a file. Assigning file attributes to a file will allow us to manipulate the file in other ways. For example, as

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread David Guntner
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Reiser is maturing nicely, but still doesn't like postfix. Huh? I'm running Postfix on my machine, and every filesystem except for /boot (which is ext2) is ReiserFS. Neither one seems to be complaining about the other. :-) What do you mean by Reiser

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Reiser is maturing nicely, but still doesn't like postfix. Huh? I'm running Postfix on my machine, and every filesystem except for /boot (which is ext2) is ReiserFS. Neither one seems to be complaining about the other. :-) What

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread Brian Parish
Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more stable. Good enough for me. I'm

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably a bit more stable.

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:19, Mark Williamson wrote: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system? any issues with NFS when using either of the file system? We are running here with ext3, but nothing is being said which would be a better choice.. I don't know if there are

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
FemmeFatale wrote: I believe Civilme's exact words on Ext3 were: An abortion waiting to happen. I quoteth. ;p Femme -- Like so many different variations on your machine, filesytems should be made with reference to as many criteria as possible. Yes, speed is good but what if you go