Re: [expert] Reiser FS

2000-09-09 Thread Ellick Chan
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

[expert] Reiser FS

2000-09-08 Thread Austin L. Denyer
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 prev

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes)

2000-08-19 Thread Goldenpi
, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes) > Doug, > > I don't see why it couldn't. I've never tried it, but i would think that > if this utility can see the Linux partition, which is ext2, and the Reiser > file system is &#

[newbie] Re: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes)

2000-08-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Doug, I don't see why it couldn't. I've never tried it, but i would think that if this utility can see the Linux partition, which is ext2, and the Reiser file system is 'still' and Unix style file system, I don't foresee any troubles doing so. I haven't bothered to become aquainted with the rei