I am reading a little about the reiserfs and have a few questions if anybody can answer them. Is the reiser fs going to be replacing ext2 in the near future? What are the advantages/disadvantages. Can I boot from it or do I need to keep / as ext2? The reason I am asking is I am looking to get a larger hard drive and the reiserfs seems to be designed for that. Any input would be greatly appreciated. TIA. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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I am reading a little about the reiserfs and have a few questions if anybody can answer them. Is the reiser fs going to be replacing ext2 in the near future? What are the advantages/disadvantages. Can I boot from it or do I need to keep / as ext2? The reason I am asking is I am looking to get a larger hard drive and the reiserfs seems to be designed for that. Any input would be greatly appreciated. TIA. </quote>
There's a big chance the 2.4 kernel series will adopt Reiserfs as it's default filesystem. It's proven to be quite stable, since Suse runs Reiserfs on it's public ftp servers. Reiserfs is good for a lot of files, because it doesn't work with inodes - it's ideal for a server running a full news feed. I think it's slower for really big files, but I'm not sure. regards, Gerrit. -- Plies korekt enie bet ingglisj joe encauntur in mai imil mesusj! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- http://www.geekcode.com Version: 3.12 GCS dpu s-:-- a14 C++++>$ UL++ P--- L+++ E--- W++ N o? K? w--- !O !M !V PS+ PE? Y? PGP-- t- 5? X? R- tv- b+(++) DI D+ G++ !e !r !y -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Reiser is going to be available in 6.4 as an option. Reiser is now available with a few steps (Patch) in 6.3 It is corect to say that the FS will handle large amounts of files, faster, like mail-news or a large diectory of data-files. While I cannot give exact stats I plan to have these available in the next few weeks. I have been told there is not a performance hit in Large files, meaning the gain is definatley in small files but you do not lose out in other areas, rather performance is comparible. Saying that Reiser will replace ex2 is not correct because there are 5 "flavors" of Journaling File Systems Being developed that I know of. Reiser however is the most popular in SuSE circles and development is close to us. I plan to have data for mail, News, Oracle, and Apache available as I stated before. This data might not be "official" However, it might help answer these questions that are occuring rather frequently. Regards; Jon ______________________ Jon R. Doyle SuSE Inc. Systems Integration Engineer 580 Second Street, Suite 210 Oakland, Ca. 94607 + 510 - 628 - 3380 ______________________ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jonathan wrote:
I am reading a little about the reiserfs and have a few questions if anybody can answer them. Is the reiser fs going to be replacing ext2 in the near future? What are the advantages/disadvantages. Can I boot from it or do I need to keep / as ext2? The reason I am asking is I am looking to get a larger hard drive and the reiserfs seems to be designed for that. Any input would be greatly appreciated. TIA.
It's true there is a lot of talk about that. I guess it will take over, not nessesaryly in the near future (whatever "near" means. ;-) I won't think it's the a replacement for ext2 in 6.4, but an option). From what I recently read in the i'X magazin, there are a few notches, but all these critics are both quite constructive and objective, it's stable but will need some fine tuning. Give it another 6-12 month to mature. Juergen
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On Fri, Mar 10, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
It's true there is a lot of talk about that. I guess it will take over, not nessesaryly in the near future (whatever "near" means. ;-) I won't think it's the a replacement for ext2 in 6.4, but an option). From what I recently read in the i'X magazin, there are a few notches, but all these critics are both quite constructive and objective, it's stable but will need some fine tuning. Give it another 6-12 month to mature.
If I remember correct the i'X magazin has tested the first available journaled reiserfs version. It was a pre-Alpha version. You cannot compare the i'X results with the current version. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
It's true there is a lot of talk about that. I guess it will take over, not nessesaryly in the near future (whatever "near" means. ;-) I won't think it's the a replacement for ext2 in 6.4, but an option). From what I recently read in the i'X magazin, there are a few notches, but all these critics are both quite constructive and objective, it's stable but will need some fine tuning. Give it another 6-12 month to mature.
If I remember correct the i'X magazin has tested the first available journaled reiserfs version. It was a pre-Alpha version. You cannot compare the i'X results with the current version.
Thanks for pointing out. The magazines usually take some time to reach me at work, also I think it was the february issue -not to antique this time-. Given the time to write and publish the article, you must be right. I won't complain, if things are better now. ;-) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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