On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:15, Ian Blenke wrote:
> bpreece1 wrote:
> > Hello everyone I am getting ready to reinstall Knoppix on my Laptop
> > Quick Question directed at the following.
> > Ian , Derek, Robin"Roblimo" Miller, Paul Foster
> > Would you go with Ext3 or Riser for the file system and pro's and cons?
>
> I will never use Reiserfs again - at least not until they have a working
> reiserfsck that doesn't destroy all of your data.
That's my major beef with reiser as well. It's pretty darn good, but if
you do have a problem, kiss it all goodbye.
> Ext3 is "better" than Reiser, but not nearly as solid as XFS.
Finally Ian sees the light! Everyone say "Halleluja!"
> > I am thinking perhaps Riser I know I am not going to use Ext2 though for
> > sure.
>
> Go Ext3, at least it has a working e2fsck that can *repair* the !@#%!
> filesystem without deleting virtually everything.
yep.
I'm continuously surprised at how little exposure XFS gets and how few
of these specialized distros pay any attention to it. I guess because
it's not in the mainstream kernel, people assume that it's Just Not
Ready Yet, despite the fact that SGI announced the release of v1.3.0
stable today - the fourth major release of the Linux codebase. To some
extent I also "blame" RedHat for pushing ext3 so hard for all I can
assume are strange political reasons.
In most benchmarks, and from a user-experience perspective, XFS performs
much better than ext3 and has a much longer history of development and
engineering, and above all, was written from the ground-up and is NOT an
ugly hack on top of an older, non-journaled filesystem...
Maybe once 2.6 stabilizes, with XFS as part of the core distro, XFS will
gain more popularity.
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