Hi List, Thank you for your help Charles.
file system types that SuSE offers out of the box? And if so, can you please elaborate which is the "best" to use?
Decide for youself after reading this series of articles on >>journaling FS for Linux:
I will definitely check out these articles!
Basically, it boils down to:
(1) Speed and saving of disk space when you have lots of small files: ReiserFS
(2) Data integrity and compatibility with existing tools designed >>for ext2 : ext3
So, is ext3/ext2 the standard file system for GNU/linux? If so, why spend so much time developing other kinds of filesystems like Reiser FS, XFS, JFS? A file system is critical to any operating system and I think it would be much better if everyone could just focus their efforts on improving one file system. This is the case with MS Windows. They started out with FAT, then moved on to FAT32 and finally are using NTFS. The same goes for other stuff in the open source community like KDE and Gnome for example. This "multiplicity" approach hurts linux as a whole. Linux software as a whole should not compete against other linux software but should compete against other OS's software.
(3) Video streaming server and systems with very large files: XFS.
I myself use ext3 for all partitions. YMMV
Thats cool. So I guess you haven't had any problems with it, eh? Thanks again for the info, ~~Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!