On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: In my experience, the performance hit of ReiserFS seems to be negative, as well as the space wasted from normal block-aligned allocation. Reiserfs uses tailing to recover the lost space at the end of a block. The disk checks are much faster, and overall responsiveness is higher. The only problem is some really ugly patches (Win4Lin), and some broken implementations (NFS), as well as I think qmail has problems. Check the ReiserFS homepage for more info (www.devlinux.org/namesys). > > Hi Guys. > > After a painful experience with NutScrape crashing (again!) and taking X > with it (requiring a hard reset that blew away half my system) I'm > looking to re-install Mandrake. However, I'm gonna give 7.1 a try this > time. > > What are the pros and cons of the Reiser FS? I know that it can prevent > the kind of file damage that I experienced here, but what kind of > performance hit would I take? My lil laptop is not the most powerful > thing in the world (AMD K6-2, 380Mhz, 64Mb, 6Gb [of which about 1.8Gb is > Linux]), especially where disk access is concerned... > > Your expert opinions would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Ozz. > > > -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sep 8
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