Request comparison of relative strenths of the various journaling file systems

[Matthew Carpenter]

If you wish to use a "commoner's" journalling filesystem, ReiserFS is
apparently not as good as XFS, but it still very good, AND well supported
without the additional pain and time-investments.  Bootloaders everywhere like
Reiser :)

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:07:16 -0400
Mel Roman <f24012 at yahoo.com> 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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