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

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> 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.

that's what Knoppix is for  :)

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