Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2136 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:30 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > The Monday 2007-09-10 at 10:03 -0400, bcoffey@ wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >
> > The reiserfs will likely not get improvements, that's all. If it has 
> > worked for you in the past, you can just keep using it as safely as 
> > before. I use it.
> >   
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> In my experience, reiserfs is not safe. It frequently fails
> (corruption and/or file loss) in the event of improper shutdown
> such as power failure or system crash.
> 
> Conversely, in Iraq, where I experienced frequent power-related
> shutdowns, and a couple crashes (due to I think, running out of
> swap space), I never lost a single file using ext3 and xfs.
> 
I could be mistaken, but i thought the use of xfs inherrently required
the use of a no-break power supply, as it holds more data in mem,,,,,

Hans
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