Request comparison of relative strenths of the various journaling file systems

[Mel Roman]

"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> writes:

> >> XFS has been, and is available as a patch for 
> >> each released official kernel, both 2.4.x &
> >> 2.6.x. I've been running it on 2.4.20 since 
> >> 2.4.20 was released.

Thanks to everyone who have responded.  I would
have followed up earlier, but seemed to be having
problems connecting to the nntp server earlier.

Based on everything I've heard, I think I probably
want to go with XFS.  One things that's been pointed
out here is that I'll need to patch my kernel to 
support XFS.  In my experiments to date with 
Mandrake, I had left my / partition as ext2 and made
the others all ReiserFS (so that the ReiserFS 
partitions would be supported through modules).

I guess it's time I learned to compile my own
kernels.  Like everything else, I suppose it's 
easy once you know how.  I've never bothered to
do it up to this point (I'm an application developer,
not an OS techie).  Would anyone recommend a good
resource to guide me in my first attempts?  I'd 
rather avoid any unnecesary blunders.

Thanks again,

Mel