Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

[Johan Van den Neste <nessie@pandora.be>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote:
>     I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on
> laptops.
> 
> Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on
> a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid fschk's...

I've been using reiserfs for quite a while now. (more than a year)
I've had some apm bios troubles that used to freeze my laptop
frequently. Reiserfs log replays at boot never take more than a second,
and I have yet to see anything go wrong.

Reiserfs is said to "greatly outperform ext3 on small files". All I can
say is I'm not unhappy about the performance.

And don't let people tell you it's unstable. (I think is considered
stable since kernel release 2.4.18, so you need at least that kernel)

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nessie