Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Thread shane
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Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 04:02, DAVEinDSM wrote: > As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I >reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc >while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition. >

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 10:16, shane wrote: > On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:02, DAVEinDSM opened a general hailing frequency > and transmitted to all open stations: > > > Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large > > directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistaken.

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Dave
Well finally have my Mandrake 8.1 back up and running with the Reiser FS file system installed. Seems to run fast enough for me.(no noticable difference from ext2). Thanks for all the input..I feel better knowing that this is a more stable fs to use. Learned a little doing the expert in

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: > > One final note: on this machine with the MDK 8.1 Standard Edition box set I > purchased; the included version of Reiser FS was so slow in performance that > it drove me nearly insane. I actually got so frustrated that I re-installed > it using the "Linux Native" ext2. > -- > Ch

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Charlie
On Sunday 12 May 2002 11:35 am, DAVEinDSM offered this for consideration: > Thanks to all of you that answered.. I was pretty sure ReiserFS was the > way to go..but wanted to here somebody elses more experienced viewpoint > before deciding for sure. Later today I will reinstall Mandrake 8

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Joan Tur
Es Diumenge 12 Maig 2002 16:08, en Randy Kramer va escriure: > I'm curious about why ReiserFS could not be used for / -- I (assumed | > thought I understood) that the reason was that Reiser was not built into > the standard kernel or startup tools or something like that, so that the > boot image c

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Roger Sherman
I remember Civilme suggesting that XFS is a good way to go on a PC, so that's what I'm using now. I have a somewhat faulty mobo, so every couple weeks, it freezes up to the point where I have to cold boot, and with XFS it boots up just as fast as it did when I was using ReiserFS. However, I l

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 12 May 2002 11:26:19 +0100, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have zero problems with XFS. My understanding is that XFS and ReiserFS are > both faster than Ext3. ReiserFS always used to have an issue that your '/' > partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if that is fixed n

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread shane
On Sunday 12 May 2002 03:26, Derek Jennings opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > ReiserFS always used to have an issue that > your '/' partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if that is fixed now. i hope it is fixed or i have no idea how i boot. ;-)

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread DAVEinDSM
* - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice?? > On Sunday 12 May 2002 06:40 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > Running XFS h

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 May 2002 06:40 am, Michael Adams wrote: > Running XFS here, Mandrake has done Xtensive, Xhuastive testing > ;-) of all the journalling file systems and XFS came in as the > overall winner. Reiser was meant to be faster but uses more disk > space. Believe you've got that backwar

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 May 2002 05:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > I have zero problems with XFS. My understanding is that XFS and > ReiserFS are both faster than Ext3. ReiserFS always used to have an > issue that your '/' partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if > that is fixed now. I keep hearing

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 12 May 2002 03:02 am, DAVEinDSM wrote: > Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large > directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistakenI > went to www.reiserfs.org ...read alot there too, but wanted real > life experiences. I trust those more

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: > ReiserFS always used to have an issue that your '/' > partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if that is fixed now. There is no > issue with '/' with XFS, but the installer warns you it is not possible to > make a boot flopy with XFS because it will not fit onto the flop

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread shane
On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:02, DAVEinDSM opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large > directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistakenI went to > www.reiserfs.org ...read alot there

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Michael Adams
Running XFS here, Mandrake has done Xtensive, Xhuastive testing ;-) of all the journalling file systems and XFS came in as the overall winner. Reiser was meant to be faster but uses more disk space. Michael On Sunday 12 May 2002 09:06 pm, Skynet wrote: > Dear DAVEinDSM: > > I left ext2 when g

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 12 May 2002 13:26, Derek Jennings wrote: > I have zero problems with XFS. My understanding is that XFS and > ReiserFS are both faster than Ext3. ReiserFS always used to have an > issue that your '/' partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if > that is fixed now. Yes, it is. AFAIK t

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Derek Jennings
I have zero problems with XFS. My understanding is that XFS and ReiserFS are both faster than Ext3. ReiserFS always used to have an issue that your '/' partition could not be ReiserFS, not sure if that is fixed now. There is no issue with '/' with XFS, but the installer warns you it is not po

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Lee
On Sunday 12 May 2002 03:35 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2002 01:02:35 -0700, "DAVEinDSM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason > > is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this > > comput

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Skynet
Dear DAVEinDSM:   I left ext2 when going from 7.2 to 8.0 and then started Reiser .. It'is now on M8.2 and works very well.  It seems to be faster than ext2 and is stable.  Try it, you won't regret !   Walter   At 2002-05-12, 01:02:00 you wrote: As

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 12 May 2002 01:02:35 -0700, "DAVEinDSM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is > that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer > for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to inst

[newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??

2002-05-11 Thread DAVEinDSM
As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition.   I had a bad experience with ext2 the default f

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ng that? > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > Ronald J. Hall > > Sent: 01 November 2001 22:19 > > To: Mandrake Newbie List > > Subject: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat... > > > > &

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Loke Kit Kai
well, if u say it will run with no problems, then I wouldn't change it...simply because that was my experiment os... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: 02 November 2001 02:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Reis

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Franki
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loke Kit Kai Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 1:25 AM To: 'Sridhar Dhanapalan'; Mandrake List (E-mail) Subject: RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat... oh no... I use ReiserFS for /... how do I change that to wat ever u r

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Franki
s.. I look forward to the upcoming complete rebuild of it. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loke Kit Kai Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat... may i know

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Loke Kit Kai
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat... My /etc/fstab line looks like this: /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 1 1 You probably shouldn't be using ReiserFS for /, though. There are some known problems with doing so, but I haven't noticed any (yet). On Fri, 2 Nov

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Loke Kit Kai
ld J. Hall > Sent: 01 November 2001 22:19 > To: Mandrake Newbie List > Subject: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat... > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > > I think that Red Hat had a very valid reason _not_ to include ReiserFS. > You must > > remember that

[newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > I think that Red Hat had a very valid reason _not_ to include ReiserFS. You must > remember that Red Hat is a server distro that prizes security and reliability Hi! Just as an observation, while on the Linux Lunacy trip, I got a chance to hear Michael Johnson of Red

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

2001-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:18:30 -0500, "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > > I think that Red Hat had a very valid reason _not_ to include ReiserFS. You > > must remember that Red Hat is a server distro that prizes security and > > reliability > > Hi! Just

Re: [newbie] reiser fs query

2001-07-16 Thread Romanator
mike cola wrote: > > i currently have 7.2 running on my system using ext2 fs (i think, i didn't select >which when i did the install a fair way back but i seem toremember it saying it was >using ext2).. > i now want to reformat all my drive except for the home partition and install >mandrake 8

[newbie] reiser fs query

2001-07-15 Thread mike cola
i currently have 7.2 running on my system using ext2 fs (i think, i didn't select which when i did the install a fair way back but i seem toremember it saying it was using ext2).. i now want to reformat all my drive except for the home partition and install mandrake 8, can i use reiser or will

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS and swap partitions

2001-06-24 Thread civileme
On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:41, Kouros Owzar wrote: > Hi. > > I decided to reinstall LM 8.0 using Reiser FS partitions. It > is my understanding that this FS is more robust against > accidental system shutdowns than standard ext2 Linux > partitions. In addressing these questions, please keep in mi

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS and swap partitions

2001-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 23 June 2001 03:41 pm, Kouros Owzar wrote: > I have a dual Xeon II system with 256MB RAM + 18.2 GB U2 SCSI drive. > It currently has 4 NTFS + 1 FAT 32 partitions AND > / /boot /root /home /usr /usr/local /tmp /var + 2 Linux > swap partitions. The latter were all created using diskdrak

[newbie] Reiser FS and swap partitions

2001-06-23 Thread Kouros Owzar
Hi. I decided to reinstall LM 8.0 using Reiser FS partitions. It is my understanding that this FS is more robust against accidental system shutdowns than standard ext2 Linux partitions. In addressing these questions, please keep in mind that I put higher value on stability than on speed and effic

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-11-22 Thread hellmut
Hi! I read a lot about Reiser and forgot the most. ;) But there is one big advantage: You don't have to go through partition checks anymore, it won't even have to check them if you have accidently switched off your computer without shutting it down. Cheers! > Hi! > > I saw in the list mails abo

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-11-22 Thread civileme
Alfonso Castro Martinez wrote: > > Hi! > > I saw in the list mails about a new filesystem called Reiser. I am > thinking install Mandrake 7.2 in my workstation: 256 Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD > and AMD K7-800. > > I would appreciate if someone can tell me if I must use Reiser or > ext2. Which are Reiser

[newbie] Reiser FS

2000-11-22 Thread Alfonso Castro Martinez
Hi! I saw in the list mails about a new filesystem called Reiser. I am thinking install Mandrake 7.2 in my workstation: 256 Mb RAM, 30 Gb HD and AMD K7-800. I would appreciate if someone can tell me if I must use Reiser or ext2. Which are Reiser benefits? Thank you: Alfonso [EMAIL PROTECTE

[newbie] Reiser FS / ISO9660

2000-09-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi Guys. First of all I'd like to thank everyone who responded with their views regarding the Reiser FS. It was very informative, and has convinced me that I want it! Thanks again. Now, on to my next problem. In the absence of a CD burner, or enough disk space on my laptop, I decided to perfo

RE: [newbie] Reiser Fs

2000-08-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Don't know the answer to this one...Ciao -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Reiser Fs Voglio reinstallare Mandrake 7.1 e so che è possibile impostare il file suys

Re: [newbie] Reiser Fs

2000-08-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
My Italian is not good enough to answer in your language. The Reiser fs keeps copies of data before writing new data, so it can be restored to some semblance of usefulness after a disk crash (due to power loss, etc.) It's supposed to be a little slower, but if you have to fsck, it's supposed to

[newbie] Reiser Fs

2000-08-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voglio reinstallare Mandrake 7.1 e so che è possibile impostare il file suystem a Reiser Fs anziché ext2. Ora, siccome sono un newbie (moolto newbie) vorrei chiedervi la differenza fra i due file system e i vantaggi (e/o svantaggi) del reiser... ho letto che è un file system journaled ma non ho la

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-08-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
My Italian is not very good, but I think that you asked if you could replace the ext2fs with the Reiser fs under 7.1. Yes, you can. Or if I read it wrong, you can do it the other way. Tell the diskdrake what you want. Both options are available, AFAIK. I can't tell you in Italian, but the jou

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-08-27 Thread David Diaz
in english please El dom, 27 ago 2000, escribiste: > Ciao a tutti, > voglio installare la Mandrake 7.1 e so che c'è la possibilità di > sostituire il file system ext2 con il reiser fs. Ho letto che è un file > system journaled ma essendo un ipernewbie non ho la minima idea di cosa > significa. >

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-08-27 Thread David Diaz
El dom, 27 ago 2000, escribiste: > Ciao a tutti, > voglio installare la Mandrake 7.1 e so che c'è la possibilità di > sostituire il file system ext2 con il reiser fs. Ho letto che è un file > system journaled ma essendo un ipernewbie non ho la minima idea di cosa > significa. > Qualcuno può aiutar

[newbie] Reiser FS

2000-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a tutti, voglio installare la Mandrake 7.1 e so che c'è la possibilità di sostituire il file system ext2 con il reiser fs. Ho letto che è un file system journaled ma essendo un ipernewbie non ho la minima idea di cosa significa. Qualcuno può aiutarmi spiegandomi i vantaggi e, se ci sono, gli

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-08-03 Thread Ty C.Mixon
gt; - Original Message - > From: "Richard Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:36 PM > Subject: [newbie] Reiser FS > > > > Could anybody give me a full description a

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-07-31 Thread Greg Stewart
Tjere was a long discussion of this fs onthe xpert board... you might want to check the expert archives. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Richard Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Reiser FS

Re: [newbie] Reiser FS

2000-07-29 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Richard Kim wrote: > > Could anybody give me a full description about what Reiser Filesystem > is? (Or at least give me a site to go to.) http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/

[newbie] Reiser FS

2000-07-29 Thread Richard Kim
Could anybody give me a full description about what Reiser Filesystem is? (Or at least give me a site to go to.)