Administrator wrote:
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS?
In all the performance measurements I've done, reiser is fast and solid, while ext3 has some performance issues. The well known strengths of reiser are in dealing with huge numbers of files, as in for example a very busy smtp server. The official view seems to be that since Hans Reiser is under a cloud of suspicion for the murder of his wife, the long term roadmap is in doubt, while ext3. with all its problems, is enthusiastically supported by most vendors. Even though ext3 has become the default fs in opensuse, the enterprise version of suse still has reiser as the default fs. Regardless, I always install on reiser. In the long run, ext4 is being worked on, and many feel that is a logical successor, but some kernel developers have hinted that something like oracle's ocfs2, or btrfs, may actually become the default file system at some point. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org