Getting new hard drive... Should I use ReiserFS or Ext3?
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Getting new hard drive... Should I use ReiserFS or Ext3?
I am getting a new hard drive in a couple of days. I am planning to copy the contents of my main drive to it (I think my main drive may be going bad). I have heard some good and some bad about ReiserFS, so should I stick with Ext3 or switch?
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 Pro and Debian Testing on Server
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Use Reiser for your root partition and ext3 for your home partition. You want your home partition to be of a file system that all distros can read and write to incase you switch distros, not all distros support reiserfs yet. But if you switch distros you will format your root partition, so the filesystem could be changed then for it, so it should be reiser.
You gotta look pretty far and wide to find a distro that doesn't support Reiserfs these days. Besides, file system support is a kernel thing. All you have to do is recompile it from source and you have your support back.
I'd say the choice is up to you. Read up on both (and the other choices) and decide which one(s) are best for YOUR needs.
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 Pro and Debian Testing on Server
Posts: 469
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I know Fedora has crappy support for Reiser in my experience. Not everyone knows how to recompile a kernel. Anyways, ya, Reiser is way better, plus the journal on it doesn't take up a whole gigabyte like with ext3.
Thanks! I don't plan on switching distros anytime soon, and I know how to recompile the kernel. I have decided to use xfs for the 200gb hard drive (since I will be using it to store movies, and xfs works well with huge files) and reiserfs on my root and home.
Well it's up to you, I recently did a benchmarking with ext2, ext3 and reiserfs... To my observation, reiserfs is faster with files of small size, but ext2 tends to be the fastest file system, may be because it's a non journaling fs..
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Getting new hard drive... Should I use ReiserFS or Ext3?
