hi all

I have reinstalled my file server and put a slack 10 with the default kernel on it. And decided to put reiserfs on it after someone sad that it is much faster than ext3. So after formating the partions from slack10 setup i noticed that that partion it's not totaly free and df -h reports an 33MB ocupation on a partition that it's soposed to be empty. The 1st question is from where is that ocupation on the partion.

My sacond dilema is about security on reiserfs. I have discoused with some people and tay sad that if i had important data on that server to drop reiser and put xfs or ext3 and the question is is reiserfs so unsecure???

And my last question:
My hardware is an P4 2,4 CPU an an ABIT IS7-V motherboard with 512 MB DDRam and an 80GB SATA HDD... The server will serv office documents as wel as form and reports files for ORACLE. Will the server in this configuration operate slower than in the old one - AMD 1300+ 128MB SDRAM and IDE ATA-133 hdd with ext3 as file system?

Thx in advance

That's journal space, and you'd be looking at
the same "loss" using ext3.

That's bollocks :) ... you're likely to hear it the other
way around from people who had probs with ext2/3
and never had any corruption with Reiser. My personal
experiences with Reiser in the last 4 (!!) years are very
good, while I did see machines with ext2/3 die in this
timeframe (and no, I didn't see 100 ext3 and 2 reiser
installs ... it was quite balanced (60/40) ...

If it did there'd have to be a MASSIVE set-up problem ;)


Cheers,
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