-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-05-13 at 13:24 +0200, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
Feel free to comment, but before I swap the drives in order to find out, I would like to receive suggestions as to what file system I should choose. I originally thought to use FAT, but some of you advised against it in favor of Ext3. Personally I would like ReiserFS, but that is more difficult to read/write from/to from a Windows machine. Also, I have a MacBook Pro which to my knowledge can read neither ReiserFS nor Ext3. That would make FAT the preferred choice unless there are weighty reasons to go with something else.
Unfortunately, reiserfs on external disk via USB on 11.0 is faulty: the filesystem can get very much corrupted, needing a rebuild that takes hours. I haven't lost data yet, but it is a real pain in the backside. On 10.3 or 11.1 it works fine. There is a bugzilla, but no plans to correct it in 11.0, as it works in 11.1. Not everybody is affected, though. Plus, they have already hinted that they want to drop reiserfs support in the future... What I don't like of ext3 for external media is that it can take ages to fsck. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoK4TUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XF+ACfRZL6rY96NVOWPvoPs6L5vqcC Zm4An1410jFJb0u/qFzE1VV4VzHdxD3w =Q3S/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org