Irwan Hadi wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:12:27AM -0400, Donald Grayson wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
I will shortly receive SuSE 9.1. Assuming it allows me to choose between Reiser and Ext3 file systems, which should I choose, and why? (It would be useful to be able to access the Linux system files from Win XP, on the NTFS, if that can be done, and even more so, the reverse--i.e., access NTFS files from Linux.) I am not currently sharing my XP system with any other OS, so this will be a new installation in all respects. All comments and observations gratefully received.
--doug
Myself, I prefer ReiserFS. It's the default choice with a SuSE install and I've had no trouble with it. For the average home user, I really don't think it matters which filesystem you use, it's only an issue if you're dealing with legacy data on already formatted drives or if you're running certain applications in high traffic environments.
As to viewing ReiserFS or EXT3 in Windows. Well, Windows will at best ignore them, at worst it will show the partitions in my computer as unformatted discs and suggest reformatting them with NTFS. NTFS drives can be read under Linux, but not written to.
Personally, I use a 20GB USB hard drive formatted with FAT32 to share data between Windows and Linux on a dual boot system.
Actually ext3 is better compared to reiserfs in means of the utilities for it, such as dump. There is not yet dump tool for reiserfs, thus makes it harder to backup the system. Yeah I know, someone will say, but but but can't you use tar?? Well, try to use tar to backup to a file within its own directory structure and see what happens. Eg: you want to backup the home directory, and home directory in your system has the biggest hard drive space so you do tar cvf /home/mybackup.tar /home see what happens
Also if you are running reiserfs, usually it will make things harder for you in case you want to access the filesystem from the rescue disc.
Just a thought.
cd /home tar -cvf backup.tar . or tar -cvf /home/backup.tar --exclude=/home/backup.tar /home Works Fine. -- Donald Grayson Systems Administrator SportPaint, Inc.