I actually did install ReiserFS with Mandrake 7.1 on a Thinkpad just
recently and I can't tell the difference. Everything is very smooth and good
so far. Deliberately crashed the laptop a few times and it replayed trans,
like what a normal jfs should do and there was very good restart times too.
I have a tiny inkling that it is actually faster than ext2, but I can't give
you hard figures. The previous OS on the same machine was RH6.2 with ext2
and then I went to Mdk 7.1 with ReiserFS, and the speed has definitely gone
up subjectively, but am not sure if it is the Mandrake optimisations or just
the FS.
-- Aravind
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> Subject: [SLUG] Reiser file system
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>
> I have only a rudimentary understanding of journalling
> filesystems, so please be gentle with my rather basic
> question. I installed my system SuSE 6.4 using the Reiser FS
> and found it to be slower than the regular ext2 FS by quite
> a large amount. So much so that I reinstalled using ext2.
> (My Linux box is only a Cyrix 686 166+)
> Is a journalling FS usually slower or is it just my box?
>
> Stay well and happy
> Heracles
> P.S. I noticed the speed difference in E not on the command
> line.
>
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