Request comparison of relative strengths of the various journ aling file systems

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Mel Roman wrote:
> Thanks for your responses.  Here are some followup questions:
> 
> Given this disadvatage, why do a lot of people on this list prefer
> XFS? 
> 
> How is it "simpler"?  I just installed ReiserFS for my test
> environment and just had to specify which filesystem I wanted to use.
> Can you clarify? 

In answer to both:  One of the problems with an advanced system (XFS, or to
some extent ReiserFS) is that in a multi-boot situation you can't
necessarily fix it from the other boots.  I've got a machine multi-booting
to RH7.3 (ext2), SuSE 8.0 (ReiserFS), LFS (ext3) and Gentoo 1.4 (XFS).  When
I clobbered my gentoo system I couldn't access that partition to fix it from
any of the others because they didn't support XFS.  For those not so clumsy
this wouldn't be a problem.  I, however, am currently rebuilding the gentoo
system on ext3 to make cooperation easier.

Other than a cooperation problem, they all should work well for you.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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