Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS vs. Ext3fs ... :-)

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 Sep 2001 10:21 pm, you wrote:

> At the possibility of making people go "argh", and a sudden loss of profits
> at barber's and hairdresses[1] across Sheffield, does anyone have an idea
> which is the, urrmmm, "best" (yes, very loose definition). I suppose a
> better thing would be a comparison of the two ... currently searching
> google without much luck.

ReiserFS:

The fastest out of the two. JFS/XFS may beat it but they are a pain to 
install. Very fast on large directories and small files i.e. web caches, NNTP 
servers, etc. Pretty stable, but there ARE still bugs in it, especially if 
you use less reliable hardware, you may trigger a bug.

Ext3:

Slower than Reiser, not by too much on most loads. Does not require reformat. 
Falls back gracefully to ext2 also if you don't like it. Quite stable - 
rpmfind.net has run it for years. I haven't tested it much myself, but I 
would say it is as stable as ReiserFS, maybe more so.


Also a factor is distro support, some do, some don't. Some pretend. ISTR 
RedHat packaged the tools but did not set them up right and shipped a few 
buggy betas. YMMV.
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