Request comparison of relative strenths of the various journaling file systems

[Brett I. Holcomb]

For XFS go to the SGI site (I don't have the url handy) and find the XFS 
project.  It has helpful hints.

Mel Roman wrote:

> "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

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