Re: reisefs vs ext2 or ext3
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:57:43AM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> 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.
# apt-get install xfsprogs
# man 8 xfs_check
# man 8 xfs_repair
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