-----Original Message----- From: Kester Clegg [mailto:kester.clegg@comreco-rail.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:30 AM
I disagree, I think it's wonderful. I installed on my mum's system because I knew (despite instructions to the contrary) she would just power off when it didn't do what she wanted it to do. Sure enough she does. The reiserfs? It barely skips a beat on rebooting and comes up as if nothing happened. That's worth a lot to the errant home user... no more lengthy fsck-ing about! And no tech support worries for me. ;-)
That's all fine and dandy. However: 1) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no dump. 2) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no quota support. 3) AFAIK with 6.4 there is no rescue disk support. 4) Last weekend I had filesystem problems after a reboot. I have my doubts that they were hardware related but they could be. After not being able to mount reiserfs from the rescue disk, I booted the install. I ran reiserfsck, it got to about 60% and the vm manager killed it. I created a bigger swap partitition and ran reiserfsck again and it completed. I still couldn't boot until I re-installed aaa_base. Missing dump is no big deal but I had scripts already set up with dump. Quota support is fairly important. The big problem is the weakness of the available tools in case you do have a problem. Greg
On Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:02 PM, Greg Thomas [SMTP:ethant@pacificnet.net] wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:
Hello SuSErs,
What are the pros & cons of using Reiser FS. Anybody have any opinions one way or the other. Is it worth it to use it on just a home desktop PC?
No, I don't think it's there yet. no quotas, no dump, and there are still warnings on the utilities like reiserfsck that they should only be used if you have seriously messed up your filesystem. I had some bizarre problem last weekend and it was a nightmare to fix.
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"Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC)" wrote:
That's all fine and dandy. However:
1) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no dump. 2) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no quota support.
And it doesn't support large files (>2GB) yet, which is supported on ext2 on SuSE Linux 7.0. If you need any of these things, too bad, if not, no reason to tell someone not to use ReiserFS. By far most machines need neither one of those two things.
3) AFAIK with 6.4 there is no rescue disk support.
Of course there is. It's a filesystem like ext2. You don't need anything special, just support in the kernel.
4) Last weekend I had filesystem problems after a reboot. I have my doubts that they were hardware related but they could be. After not being able to mount reiserfs from the rescue disk, I booted the install. I ran
If there's support for it in the kernel it will work. It's just another filesystem. There's nothing special about it or ext2, they're both different versions of the same thing.
reiserfsck, it got to about 60% and the vm manager killed it. I created a bigger swap partitition and ran reiserfsck again and it completed. I still couldn't boot until I re-installed aaa_base.
Missing dump is no big deal but I had scripts already set up with dump. Quota support is fairly important. The big problem is the weakness of the available tools in case you do have a problem.
Please use the 7.0 kernel. You can find it at ftp://ftp.suse.com?pub/people/mantel/ (no rpm, that's the .tar.gz). Make sure to download the right thing from there, there's one big kernel image, and many small patchsets (only one of them is the one to use, the latest one, of course). Don't know why you had these problems, this link to the new kernel is independent. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Michael Hasenstein wrote:
"Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC)" wrote:
That's all fine and dandy. However:
1) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no dump. 2) AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no quota support.
And it doesn't support large files (>2GB) yet, which is supported on ext2 on SuSE Linux 7.0. If you need any of these things, too bad, if not, no reason to tell someone not to use ReiserFS. By far most machines need neither one of those two things.
3) AFAIK with 6.4 there is no rescue disk support.
Of course there is. It's a filesystem like ext2. You don't need anything special, just support in the kernel.
4) Last weekend I had filesystem problems after a reboot. I have my doubts that they were hardware related but they could be. After not being able to mount reiserfs from the rescue disk, I booted the install. I ran
If there's support for it in the kernel it will work. It's just another filesystem. There's nothing special about it or ext2, they're both different versions of the same thing.
reiserfsck, it got to about 60% and the vm manager killed it. I created a bigger swap partitition and ran reiserfsck again and it completed. I still couldn't boot until I re-installed aaa_base.
Missing dump is no big deal but I had scripts already set up with dump. Quota support is fairly important. The big problem is the weakness of the available tools in case you do have a problem.
Please use the 7.0 kernel. You can find it at ftp://ftp.suse.com?pub/people/mantel/ (no rpm, that's the .tar.gz). Make
I can't get this link to work. Is it a good link?
sure to download the right thing from there, there's one big kernel image, and many small patchsets (only one of them is the one to use, the latest one, of course).
Don't know why you had these problems, this link to the new kernel is independent.
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Jerry VB wrote:
Please use the 7.0 kernel. You can find it at ftp://ftp.suse.com?pub/people/mantel/ (no rpm, that's the .tar.gz). Make
I can't get this link to work. Is it a good link?
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