Hi Guys
Quick question to any SuSE people on the list (and any other people with experience).
What is the currently recomended filesystem to use with SuSE 7.3? I have been using ReiserFS since SuSE 6.4 with no complaints, and currently have over 50 servers deployed using it (mostly at 7.2 level).
However it seems the upgrade from 7.3 to 7.3 (running ReiserFS) is less
I haven't done it yet, but I would go with ext3 because there is a program that runs in MS Windows that can access ext2, and I have been told that it works with ext3. Many of us will be stuck with MS for a while yet. Program is called called explore2fs. With it, you can access your Linux directory from Windows, copy files, etc. If you don't care, then I have no other recommendation. --doug At 16:42 01/02/2002 +0200, Peter Nixon wrote: than ideal (it killed my notbook fair convincingly, to the point where it took me several hours with reiserfsck and various other tools to get it functional again.)
As I have never been a fan of upgrades in any case (and this experience
confirms that) I will be only rolling out 7.3 when I have the need to deploy (or redeploy) a server. That being the case, how good is ext3??!!
I had this discussion with many people at Linux Kongress and the consenus
was overwhelmingly the everyone was using ext3, but this seemed to be as much because the other developers thought Hans Reiser was an idiot as becuse ext3 was technically superior. (Unfortunately I have not met Hans, so I cannot comment one way or the other)
Thought?! Comments?! Flames?!
ie. tell me why Hans is not and idiot so I can continue using ReiserFS :-)
or why I SHOULD use ext3 (Forget backward compatibility with ext2 as I know that already and am uninterested)
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