Clayton <smaug42@gmail.com> writes:
I upgraded some lan clients to 10.2. I notice that new installs use ext3. Is the latter better? Faster? Is there a problem with reiser?
http://lwn.net/Articles/202780/ Summary: It does not scale. For uniprocessor, it should not make much difference. But reiser3 horribly bogs down on multi-core servers, for example during kernel compiles after a tarball was extracted (which is what happens with `rpmbuild kernel-default.spec`.)
I am one of goofs who is hanging onto Reiser v3.... my excuse is that it seems to survive reboots (intentional or otherwise) a lot more elegantly than ext. That is a bit of a lame excuse I know...
In that case continue to use ReiserFS v3 - we just changed the *default*. We still test and fix it, so feel free to use it on your system if you prefer it, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126