On 10/19/06, Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:43:14PM +0300, RutePoint wrote:
> hello
>
> i was troubled with Novells decision to back away from reiserfs and divert
> to ext3 in the future.
> will this happen as well in the OpenSuSE version?
> if so, i am not keen on ext3 as i have had some ill experience withit
> loosing data.
> my question is, are there people here who have some experience with XFS?
>
> what are you experiences like?
> do you recommended it?
> what are the pros?
> what are the cons?
>
> I have a system that i want to install for a longer term as a server so i am
>
> not planning on reinstalling it in the near future after deployment.
> hopefully not for several years :) (updates would be performed :) )
> so if you have any recommendetions on experiences and best practices
> regarding filesystems in general and XFS in particular as im considering
> it as a prime candidate instead of ext3 do let me know.

reiserfs will continue to work. We won't just disable it ;)

So you can feel free to stay with it ;)

Ciao, Marcus