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Re: Sarge with ext3, reiserfs (3/4?) or xfs?



On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:41 -0500, Tom Vier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:02:05PM +0100, Jan Meijer wrote:
> > Come ReiserFS and XFS into the game.  Which one to choose?  I've heard 
> 
> I think reiserfs is usually the best choice. It's faster than ext3 and more
> stable - it's been around longer and hasn't had a serious bug in a long
> time.

Bull.  On a firewire-attached drive, reiserfs (on the 2.6 kernels)
*always* pukes during times of heavy disk io.  This happens both 
when cp-ing a large dir tree, and when creating a huge tarball.

Don't know about the 2.4 kernels.

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