Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2136 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Bauer wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
>> On Monday 10 September 2007 07:05, Frank Fiene wrote:
>>> On Montag, 10. September 2007, bcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> I am about to install openSuSE 10.2 on two new computers and see that
>>>> the 10.2 default file system is ext3 and not Reiser.  I'd like some
>>>> advice as whether to accept the ext3 default or to go with Reiser as
>>>> I have in the past.
>>> reiserfs is dead!

Not entirely, Reiserfs 3x is finished and is not going to receive
further development. Reiserfs 4x is not complete, *but* the jury is
still out on whether, and how much, development is currently taking place.

see http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html  and
http://www.namesys.com/install_v4.html

>> No, his wife is.
>>
> Maybe. Maybe not. Nobody (of us) knows.
> 
> Having good (well: a lot of) expertise in media I don't believe a single word 
> I read or hear in the news. 
> 
> Regarding reiserfs:
> 
> I still use it, it survived several sudden power-downs, I'm happy with it, 
> having countless text, photo and tar.gz files from some Kilobytes up to 
> hundreds of MB's. Don't know, if that's very efficient, but it's fast and it 
> works reliably (knock on wood).
> 

Me too. I would add 'at least 100' sudden power-downs and I have never
lost a single file. Additional Me Too of (knock on wood)

> I'm just confused by the discussions I read here on this list. But apart from 
> personal beliefs I havn't read a lot of helpful postings in this regard here, 
> regrettably. It sometimes reminds me of the Win-Linux discussions (mine is 
> better than yours, nyaaah nyaaah nyaaah)
> 
> Well, some were serious, I must admit...
> 
> Daniel
> 

see also: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html  on the large/small
file advantages/disadvantages.

I have used both and for my use I have no complaints about either..


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