Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-02-22 at 09:49 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
Not wishing to reopen old flames and wounds, but in the last 2 days I have had problems with ext3. On this 11.0 Alpha2 box I have /dev/sdb1 as / (JFS) 500G SATA /dev/sdb2 /boot (reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /ftp (ext3) 320G SATA
Reiserfs for a small partition such as boot? make no sense. Typical is ext2 (not 3).
I had the space to waste and my back was up against the wall. Some of us have long and horrid memories of the time taken to do fsck.ext2 on a 20G HD once the mount count was exhausted, that's what made me switch to SuSE/reiserfs. One day I had a power glitch and the newly installed SuSE 6.2 test box was up in a jiffy while the ext2 box clunked it's way painfully through a check.
Suddenly there was a system freeze that needed a hard reset and when booting, after the grub selection, a black screen appeared. I had to boot from 11.0 Alpha2 CD and run fsck. The ext3 partition was the one with the problem and it took ages to get through. The fsck for the reiserfs and JFS were all clean.
Last night on a box belonging to a relative on which I did a fresh 10.3 install to a new HD /dev/sda1 (160G PATA ext3), with the old 10.0 HD as /dev/sdb2 (80G PATA reiserfs), I inadvertently pulled the wrong plug and powered the box off. The ext3 drive drive took over an hour to fix, the reiserfs drive took minutes, complaining of 3 errors, quickly fixed with --fix-fixable.
Well, that's the known advantage of reiserfs over ext3. Nothing strange there, large partitions take a large time to check, but reiserfs is very fast. Known thing. So?
The reason why I considered the move to JFS.
Is there any chance we could have JFS as an install choice for 11.0?
You can have ext3 for the root partition, then have a huge XFS partition for your home or data partitions. I understand it is more reliable.
Booting from xfs has had problems in the past, with no support in the install dvd; jfs perhaps similar problem, so better make the root as ext3.
I did consider XFS. I did ext3 on the relative's box and I'm regretting having done so after last night's experience - the 10.0 install was using reiserfs. Imagine if he suffers a power cut. Anyhow, I've rsync'd everything over to the reiserfs HD and I'll leave it powered down until I can get to do a backup update for him. One day my daughter asked me to call around, her box wasn't coming up, she had tried many times .... ext3 again.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org