Re: [SLUG] XFS, Reiser, and Ext3

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 14:07:36 EDT


On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, William Coulter wrote:

> I have read some article about Reiser and basicly they said it is not
> ready for public use. Is that true?

I vote "no" on reiserfs, and this is why:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html

> Ext3 is what I have used in the past, but I don't like it. It was slow
> and I had more problems with it. Maybe it was disto and version but I am
> warming to the idea of using it again.

Could be distro-specific, or inappropriately tuned.

> XFS is somthing that I have not used before. How stable is it? Who is
> using it and for how long? Pros and Cons?

Haven't used it, but that article I linked to says it shares
(bad) characteristics with reiserfs.

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