ReiserFS

Jussi Kekkonen jussi.kekkonen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 12:15:38 UTC 2008


As far as I know, reiserfs is mostly aimed to systems having heavy io
load, or in other words, "disk traffic"

thus said, for most home users ext should be just fine :)  but, you
also should be able to use reiser too if you like to without problems.

2008/4/29, Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
> > Steven Vollom wrote:
> >
> >> Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> >>
> >>> Michael wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Not Kubuntu specific but interesting just the same. I don't think that
> >>>> K/Ubuntu ever used this file system, did they?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I like it, and use in every K/Ubuntu installation.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I used it a short while.  A friend recommended it.  It worked fine; the
> >> only problem that I could see was the fact that you have to defrag, like
> >> when you use Microsoft products.  Ext3 doesn't require defragmentation,
> >> I am told.  My experience is limited, however, I thought the defrag info
> >> was interesting and worth looking into.  I am still using Gutsy and Ext3
> >> as my file system.
> >>
> >
> > I had the bad experience of a couple of crashes using ReiserFS. Went
> > "back" to Ext3 and so far no problems whatsoever. Still on Gutsy though
> > but the 1-2 PC I am testing with Hardy behaves very well so far
> >
> > Sinclair
> >
> >
> I wish I could contribute more.  I get so much help from the forum,
> however, my skill level is not yet worthy of helping much.  Every little
> opportunity I get, I try though.  I hope you get your problems solved.
> I am installing Hefty on a separate partition and will soon dual boot
> with Gutsy and Hefty.  If I learn anything about which file system is
> best, I will forward the news to you.  Success!
>
> Steven
>
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