EXT3 or ResierFS

Dankles · 09-21-2005, 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by bigrigdriver
Note to Dankles: Read the newspapers once in a while, or watch the evening news on TV! Military grade security? My aching backside! Have you seen how many times military computer systems have been hacked? If reiser4 offers military grade security, I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling.

I'll stick with ext3. It may not be as secure from hackers, but it certainly is secure from my ignorance. If I break something, ext3 has, all but once, recovered for my error. That once, I ran fsck to fix my error.

Did you look at the website? I was just stating what they claim on there home page. I've used Reiser4 for awhile with out any problems.

Dankles · 09-21-2005, 07:51 AM

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Originally posted by wpyh
I used to use ext2, then I switched to ext3 for my root partition. After I found out that ext3 can't recover deleted files, I'm planning to move back to ext2. But I'll never use reiser*, it just doesn't feel right (doesn't feel like Linux...).

Doesnt feel like linux? Linux is all about its dynamic abilitys. ReiserFS and Reiser4 only add to this great operating systems ability to dynamicly adapt and grow in different ways.

jnev · 09-21-2005, 08:43 AM

i use both, and i really can't tell a difference (looking back now, reiser does seem to be faster after reading this thread... gotta love the placebo effect). right now i'm on ext3, the next time i install a distro will probably be reiserfs or xfs.

BuckRogers01 · 09-21-2005, 11:46 AM

whats xfs anyway

wpyh · 09-21-2005, 12:05 PM

Yeah, it doesn't feel like Linux, in a way that it wasn't included in the tree for as long as ext2. ext3 is mostly similar to ext2, so it's ok. There's just this strange feeling that reiserfs is somewhat different... maybe I'm just resistant to change, though

Tinkster · 09-21-2005, 03:50 PM

It has been officially part of the kernel since January 2001.
Saying it doesn't feel like Linux is about as smart as saying
that the current ALSA drivers don't feel like Linux, or SATA
doesn't feel like Linux. Just get over it, ext3 sucks ;}

Cheers,
Tink

KimVette · 09-21-2005, 07:54 PM

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Originally posted by BuckRogers01
whats xfs anyway

It's another journaling filesystem, contributed by Silicon Graphics (SGI). It was originally used in SGI's Irix variant of Unix, running on systems ranging from the lowly Indy to Onyx supercomputers. It's regarded as bulletproof, proven, but is slower and has more slack than Reiser FS.

I used to use ext2 with Linux but wouldn't touch ext3 with a 10-foot pole. I've read enough complaints about it to avoid it.

When I decided to test the waters with journaling filesystems on Linux, I tried Reiser FS expecting it to suck, but much to my surprise it has been great. I've pulled the plug on systems mid-write during testing, rebooted, the journal played back, and I didn't lose anything. I'm glad I went with Reiser because one day I spent an entire 16-hour day working on a quote for a client using OOo, didn't save my work in progress (Stupid me!) and the power supply suddenly put on a light show and gave up the ghost. Well, I spent the next couple of hours getting my hands on another power supply (didn't have any on hand. Oops!) and getting the system back into a functional state. Booted the system up, and during bootup I saw the messages from Reiser replaying the journal. Finally booted, logged into X, open OOo and it was able to recover my work in progress from the temp files. I'd lost only a couple of minutes' worth of work!