I suspect this question has been asked and answered somewhere, and a reference to that source would be appreciated. The question: On a one-terminal system, where only one person will be using the hard drive at a time, what is the advantage of reiserfs over extn? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA Whatever is not forbidden is permitted -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller -- Wallensteins Lager
On 09/05/06, Dennis J. Tuchler
I suspect this question has been asked and answered somewhere, and a reference to that source would be appreciated. The question:
On a one-terminal system, where only one person will be using the hard drive at a time, what is the advantage of reiserfs over extn?
-- Best regards,
Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA
Dennis, I suspect it isn't an easy answer. There are one or two comparisons fo the various file systems on the web - check out your friendly Mr Google :-) It's probably dependent upon what you will actually doing the most of on the system. The different filing systems are better at some things than others. Some are better (quicker etc) at handling small files while others are far more efficient with large files. You are probably best checking Google or another search engine and making a personal judgement rather than use somebody elses. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-09 at 16:06 -0500, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I suspect this question has been asked and answered somewhere, and a reference to that source would be appreciated. The question:
On a one-terminal system, where only one person will be using the hard drive at a time, what is the advantage of reiserfs over extn?
That's a "non sequitur". One thing doesn't have anything to do with the other. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEYTWotTMYHG2NR9URAkcwAJ4/JHonL7RB/q6L/zXCyJGv+52ykACeMQk/ C2V+XM8rj4Zk2eBexlrufwY= =1Lge -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:06, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
what is the advantage of reiserfs over extn?
The primary advantage of reiserfs over ext3 is performance. Both are journaled. Reiserfs is a b-tree organization, which means that all other things being equal access times for large drives will be faster on reiserfs (generally speaking) than on ext3. On the other hand reiserfs journals only the meta-data and not the contents... but this is usually not a problem, and the performance enhancement of reiserfs makes it the fs of choice (usually). ext2 is not journaled, and its slow. On the other hand, its been around a long time and its stable as a rock; but, its slo w e r than reiserfs big-time. If you use a multiple partitions for your setup (and you should) /boot can be ext2 without any problem. If /boot is very small the install will not let you make it journaled; not enough room for the journal reciever. All other partitions /, /home, /var, /tmp, /usr, /work, /opt,,... should all be reiserfs on most systems. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 21:06 -0500, Mark H. Harris wrote:
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:06, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
what is the advantage of reiserfs over extn?
The primary advantage of reiserfs over ext3 is performance. Both are journaled. Reiserfs is a b-tree organization, which means that all other things being equal access times for large drives will be faster on reiserfs (generally speaking) than on ext3. On the other hand reiserfs journals only the meta-data and not the contents... but this is usually not a problem, and the performance enhancement of reiserfs makes it the fs of choice (usually).
ext2 is not journaled, and its slow. On the other hand, its been around a long time and its stable as a rock; but, its slo w e r than reiserfs big-time.
If you use a multiple partitions for your setup (and you should) /boot can be ext2 without any problem. If /boot is very small the install will not let you make it journaled; not enough room for the journal reciever. All other partitions /, /home, /var, /tmp, /usr, /work, /opt,,... should all be reiserfs on most systems.
-- Kind regards,
Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net
I did a bit of Googling on this as I am curious as well, running FC4 and having no intention of going to FC5, with Linux Mag's SUSE 10.0 full version on the shelf waiting for a slack period to install. I gather this uses reiserfs by default. Searching with <comparison reiserfs ext3 suse> brings the usual zillion results. These two are informative: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/apa.htm... though the PDF Reference Guide on http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html is presumably more up to date, though the bit on formats looks to be the same. Andy Goss
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:26, Andy Goss wrote:
SUSE 10.0 full version on the shelf waiting for a slack period to install. I gather this uses reiserfs by default. reiserfs is default on SuSE... however, one great big huge partition is also default on SuSE--which is a bad plan for several reasons I won't go into here. The administration guide that shipped with SuSE professional 9.2 has an excellent discussion of File Systems in Linux---Chapter 20... The admin guide that shipped with 9.0 has a similar discussion in appendix A. I was a little disappointed in the SuSE 10 boxed set... no admin guide. :-(
Hey, that reminds me... what happened to SuSE 'Professional' 10 :-| I assume these books are still availble on DVD or something? (I guess I should look at my SuSE 10 DVD and see...) -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net
Mark H. Harris wrote:
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:26, Andy Goss wrote:
SUSE 10.0 full version on the shelf waiting for a slack period to install. I gather this uses reiserfs by default. reiserfs is default on SuSE... however, one great big huge partition is also default on SuSE--which is a bad plan for several reasons I won't go into here. The administration guide that shipped with SuSE professional 9.2 has an excellent discussion of File Systems in Linux---Chapter 20... The admin guide that shipped with 9.0 has a similar discussion in appendix A. I was a little disappointed in the SuSE 10 boxed set... no admin guide. :-(
Hey, that reminds me... what happened to SuSE 'Professional' 10 :-|
I assume these books are still availble on DVD or something?
(I guess I should look at my SuSE 10 DVD and see...)
Both books are included on the DVD.
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:26, Andy Goss wrote:
though the PDF Reference Guide on http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html Yes, take this link... then... Reference Guide System File Systems in Linux Major File Systems in Linux (chapter 34.2)
This gives a good description and the general pros and cons without bogging down in all the benchmark hype. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net
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