Re: ReiseFS vs XFS
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:27:08 -0400
Brendan <mailinglist@endosquid.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 03:35 pm, Henrique de Moraes
> Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > For / , why not use ext3?
> >
> > Agreed. ext3 is stable, quite fast enough (IF you're
> > using kernel 2.6 and enable all optionals) and it is
> > extremely *safe*. AND it has the best set of recovery
> > tools I know of, should you actually need them.
> >
> > If you are doing a proper install where / contains not
> > much more than /etc, /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?
ext3 is a solid, very low-bug system.
The on-disk structure is the same as that of ext2. Thus, all
ext2 utilities work on it.
*Every* rescue disk has ext2 support.
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