Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> >I upgraded some lan clients to 10.2. I notice that new installs use ext3. Is
>> >the latter better? Faster? Is there a problem with reiser?
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/202780/
>> Summary: It does not scale. For uniprocessor, it should not make much
>> difference. But reiser3 horribly bogs down on multi-core servers, for example
>> during kernel compiles after a tarball was extracted (which is what happens
>> with `rpmbuild kernel-default.spec`.)
>
> I am one of goofs who is hanging onto Reiser v3.... my excuse is that
> it seems to survive reboots (intentional or otherwise) a lot more
> elegantly than ext.  That is a bit of a lame excuse I know...

In that case continue to use ReiserFS v3 - we just changed the
*default*.  We still test and fix it, so feel free to use it on your
system if you prefer it,

Andreas
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