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

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:17:33PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> ext3 is (currently) just ext2 with journalling.  Journalling is just
> a way of making sure that filesystem metadata is always in a
> consistent state, even if the machine should crash or lose power
> unexpectedly.  So use of ext3 should just be based on whether having
> to fsck to repair metadata at boot time is acceptable.

	Yes, of course, but I'd like to know to what an extent an
end-user would find a Journalling FS useful. It's not very often that I
need to fsck things, and the file IO is not the bottle neck in my
situation. One of the things ReiserFS is going to come up with are
plugins, so you could have a compressed FS, which would be quite useful.

	Of course, in more demanding environments, the characterstics of
having a sort of database instead of a pile of files is quite tasty.

	In other words, what can convince me to go through all the
hassle of installing something like XFS? (OK, the installation of ext3
is nearly trivial).

	Cheers,
	José

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