James Gregory was once rumoured to have said: > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 13:02 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > > Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between > > & comparative strengths & weaknesses of EXT3 & NTFS ? I used NTFS for > > years and found it bulletproof, in fact the only part of Windows I would > > like to keep.
[snip] > filesystems are currently going through. If performance is important to > you then reiserfs is a good choice, though it has a reputation for being > lacking in recovery tools. I don't know how true that is since the > reiserfsprogs package does ship with the standard fsck variants that > claim to do the kinds of things you'd expect them to (superblock > recovery, tree-rebuilding etc). XFS is another good choice, and it comes [rest snipped] Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been its lack of dump/restore -- something which both ext2 and xfs have. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
