On Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 00:50:07, Andrew McNabb said:
> I've heard enough horror stories about Reiser that I wouldn't recommend
> someone use it unless they know they need it.  For a student system,
> they should definitely be using ext3.

Could you elaborate on this, please?  I have yet to hear a well-documented
reiserfs "horror story" that is related to the filesystem itself, instead of
an underlying hardware or user stupidity problem.

For anecdotes to the contrary, my experience with reiserfs has been entirely
positive.  When I switched from ext3 to reiser on my Gentoo box, compiles
went noticeably faster.  When I switched from ext3 to reiser on CAEDM's
linux boxes, installs went noticeably faster.  I have yet to encounter a
data corruption issue, even when I've kicked the power cord out of my UPS
while emerging something.

-- 
Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"It's not so much verbing that weirds language, as much as it is the
renounification."  -- Marc LeBlanc

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