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

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 07 April 2003 12:38 pm, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> 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.
>

Booting from a Knoppix CD would allow you to get to your XFS system.



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