On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:54:37AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 03:53, Thedore Knab wrote: > > I am moving away from using ext3 on my servers due to its high overhead and lower > > performance. I am considering either XFS or JFS. > > Just curious, but why is everyone avoiding ReiserFS? I know RH dumped > reiser in favor of ext3, but I know of hard-core RH admins who are going > back to reiser because it worked better for them than ext3 (more > reliability apparently, also more features like live-resize with LVM). > > I know reiser had some problems earlier, but it's had more time to knock > the bugs out and seems fine to me now. I know XFS and JFS have a longer > history than reiser, but not on Linux, where they are relative newbies.
One problem I had with it was that is was non-obvious how to create a smaller journal than the default. For instance, if I have a 64 MB root filesystem I really don't want a 32 MB journal. I'll admit that I may not have RTFM enough, though. I also had some problems with Reiser on sparc linux (reiser isn't alone there; XFS and JFS also had problems). I can't recall if I ever got the resize to work. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
