Just to reiterate a bit on what has been posted previously.
We switched to ext3 on the blu.org server because we could do that on
the fly to an existing file system. But, I converted to Reiserfs on my
personal systems. And XFS is also an excellent file system.
IMHO: For home or standalone use on SuSE, I would probably say that
Reiserfs is probably a decent choice. In a commercial environment, you
probably want do some research based on file system use as well as what
other systems are in use at the installation. Run some benchmarks if you
can.
I have a large hard disk that I use for backups. Since I frequently
mount and unmount file systems on that disk, fscks with a non-journal
file system would take a long time, or I would have to turn off the max
mount. But, if for some reason my system crashed white the backup file
systems were mounted, then the fsck would take forever. With a
journalling file system, such as Reiserfs, the recovery is very fast.
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Jerry Feldman