Re: [SLUG] Reiser4

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 16:34:16 EDT


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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Reiser4
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:22:01 -0400
From: Wayne Pollock <wpollock@hccfl.edu>
To: mike@wackyworld.tv

Mike,

Here's some information you requested. Please re-post to the SLUG
list for me, as a digest subscriber I don't have posting privileges.

-Wayne Pollock

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>> I'd strongly recommend XFS or JFS.
>> ...
>
> Have you ever had to use xfs_check or xfs_repair? How good are they?
> XFS formats out with the same 932GB as Reiserfs so that's good. I know
> Apple uses a version of XFS but I haven't had any experience with JFS.
> Any reason to use it over XFS?
>
> I want reliable backup so I'm not going to use anything experimental but
> my investigating in to Reiser4 also turned up that they are working on
> an ext4. I'm now considering a test box to do some benchmarks on these
> different filesystems just for kicks.
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback!!
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.

Read this insightful discussion of XFS and ReiserFS by T'so,
a primary developer of ext3:

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

-Wayne

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