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Subject: Re: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:00:15 -0700
From: Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I hope this is helpful...
I have been using MDK7.2 on both my laptop, and my desktop for about a
year now. Both machines have undergone unexpected power outages, and
forced shutdowns. I use ReiserFS for ALL my partitions except SWAP. I
have had ZERO problems with file damage. I did use ext2fs prior to last
year, and after a couple of unexpected outages, I experience irreparable
file damage (which led to the ReiserFS installations)
Ken
David Guntner wrote:
> Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it
> looks
> like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it
> offers the
> best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely
> missing something). I always mount a seperate /boot partition as the
> first
> filesystem, and I've used ext2 even with everything else set to a
> different
> type of FS. It just works better for me since I couldn't seem to get
> 8.0
> to boot with a /boot that was ReiserFS.
>
> Now, I'm getting ready to do a clean install of 8.1 and will be
> reformatting all partitions exept for /home. I'm planning on using
> ext3
> for /boot (since if I read it right, it's completely backwards
> compatable
> with ext2 and shouldn't give me any booting grief). Now for the big
> question: Should the / filesystem be something like ext3 also, or is
> there
> any downside to using ReiserFS for / as well (it's my second partition
> on
> the disk)? I'm asking because I could have sworn at one point that I
> read
> something saying that for performance (or other) reasons, the /
> partition
> would be better off being set as something non-ReiserFS.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? Experiences?
>
> --Dave
>
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