Re: reisefs vs ext2 or ext3
On Sat, 10 May 2003 12:40:53 +1000
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:27:54PM -0400, Allan Wind wrote:
> > On 2003-05-09 13:38:38, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > ReiserFS really shines when there are lots of small files.
> >
> > Is XFS still considered better than ReiserFS?
>
> Depend who you ask ;-) XFS does have some things like ACLs and Extended
> attributes, though, which Reiser (3, anyway) doesn't yet have. Reiser
> does still have the advantage with dirs full of lots of small files.
Reiserfs is much more widely used than XFS, so problems with it are more
likely to be found and fixed.
XFS has some neat stuff, but one thing it lacks is a file system check and
repair utility. That seems to me a lot like hubris.
I don't use XFS for those reasons.
Kevin
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