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[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 September 2007 19:25, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> 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!
>
> Yes, and I was burned by reiserfs a couple times.
>
> My next upgrade, I converted to ext3 and xfs.
> Despite several power-failures (in Iraq during generator maintenance), I
> never lost a single file with ext3 and xfs.
>
> Here is my system:
> $ mount | grep /
> /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> /dev/sda6 on /usr type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sda7 on /var type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sda8 on /opt type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sda11 on /home type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sda9 on /tmp type xfs (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /windows/c type ntfs
>       (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)

I hope I haven't missed this elsewhere, but I'd be interested to know if there 
are special reasons why you've used ext3 on / and xfs on your other Linux 
partitions - just as a pointer next time I'm setting up a disk.
Cheers
Fergus

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