ext3 vs. reiserFS

[Collins]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:30:05 -0400 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
wrote:> Scribbling feverishly on April 12, Harry G managed to emit:
> > I am going to be setting up a new workstation, probably with Suse.
> >  I have a little experience with ext 3 file system (OK so far) but
> >  are there any advantages of one over the other?  File integrity
> >  is the prime consideration, as apposed to speed.
> 
> For me, XFS wins hands down. It has the most mature code base,
> because it's been in use on SGI's high performance workstations for
> years. I understand JFS is also solid, but have no personal
> experience with it. I've also used ext3 and have had no problems *so
> far* with data corruption.  In descending order of preference based
> on my own experience:
> 
> XFS
> ext3
> ext2
> 
> That said, allow me to recommend a book, "Linux Filesystems,"
> written by William von Hagen. It was written with a 2.4.9 kernel in
> mind, but the issues should be the same. He covers all of the major
> and some of the minor filesystems available for Linux. He also
> covers distributed filesystems (OpenAFS and NFS come to mind),
> Netware, Samba, Netatalk logical volume management, how to perform
> benchmarking for your environment, and so on. Great book -- I've
> just started reading my (personally autographed) copy, but I can
> already see that it will be a keeper.
> 

I've been using ext3 for several months now, and it's survived a few
hard reboots without any squawks.

xfs questions

1) now that it's available in kernel source, is the version merged
into the kernel any better or worse than before?  I used it briefly
some time ago, but got really tired <tm> of finding out that I
couldn't upgrade my kernel when I wanted to.  I would assume that's no
longer a problem?

2) Any problems with grub and/or lilo?


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