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Re: ReiseFS vs XFS



On Monday 26 September 2005 05:42 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote:
> > > /lib, /sbin, /bin, /boot and a few other oddities (certianly not /home,
> > > /srv, /usr, /var or /tmp), then you really are better off using ext3
> > > there for safety.
> >
> > I disagree. Could you tell me why you present this as fact?
>
> Because it has made my life MUCH easier over the five or so big disk
> crashes on small servers without RAID I have been through.  Because it made
> my life much easier while trying to switch filesystems, or moving systems
> to RAID1 on-line with minimum downtime.  Because of quotas.  Because system
> performance seems to be better with some filesystems if I segregate the big
> stuff (/home and others) from the small stuff (/usr, /...).  Because I can
> use different filesystems and filesystem mount options according to what is
> in each partition (and I do just that)... and the list goes on.

I was talking about how you present ext3 as the best option, as opposed to 
reiserfs.



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