[Ilugc] FC3 (was: reiser 4 vs xfs)
- From: siva@xxxxxxxxxxx (Sivasankar Chander)
- Date: Thu Jan 20 12:34:23 2005
I've got one doubt here.
Then does it mean that u cannot recover files on a
resierfs when the system has been improperly shutdown
can anybody tell me which of these two is
better(reiser 4 vs xfs)...?
No idea, I'm quite happy with ext3 on cryptoloop.
I don't know, but Reiser4 doesn't have the reputation
of being industrial-strength. OTOH, I haven't lost a
single byte of data over the last 4 years with ext3 -
so I'm staying with ext3 until significant performance
advantages, combined with industrial-strength reliability,
are seen in xfs, reiser4, etc.
The other main advantage of ext3 is that in a pinch, I
can repair an ext3 filesystem mounted as an ext2
filesystem, which is supported on a whole lot of install
CDs and liveCDs (RH 6.2, 7.x, 8.x, Knoppix, ...). I did
this recently on a system in which I'd accidentally
hosed glibc during an attempted upgrade, leaving the system
unbootable. I rebooted in rescue mode with a RH 7.3
install CD and repaired it without much effort. With
Reiser or anything more elaborate, I'd have been sunk -
it would have required a kernel with the appropriate
filesystem support compiled in.
-Siva
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