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Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive



On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:49:07PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> 
> > it sounds to me like you want a more reliable filesystem, for this
> > purpose you do NOT want reiserfs yet.  i would stick with ext2 which
> > is a very mature, stable and reliable filesystem NOW.  
> 
> And you get to wait for fsck forever and ever and ever and ever and ..

at least ext2 HAS a fsck.  when your reiserfs partition gets corrupted
what do you do?  journalling != corruption proof.  

really this `but you have to wait for fsck when you pull the plug'
whine is getting really old.  

> I have no investment one or the other. What about XFS makes more
> sense?

it has far greater filesystem/file size abilities then reiser.  it
also appears to be faster in many/most aspects.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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