[ale] [Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net: Reiser vs EXT3]

[James P. Kinney III]

As was pounded to extinction on this list several months ago, a big
"gotcha" with ext3 is the extreme permanence of the rm command. It does
not, however, suffer from the data corruption problem under some very
specific conditions that Reiserfs has. Given the option between
occasional corruption vs. total, deliberate annihilation of a file, I'll
take ext3. 

And XFS (the SGI journaled file system) is even faster. It just was
accepted as a permanent file type in the 2.5 tree.

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:33, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> > 
> > I have seen similar... and have just assumed that Reiser was more robust due
> > to it's age.
> 
> As I understand it, Reiser is faster, but can exhibit data corruption
> in some circumstances. Ext3 is not known to have any such troubles.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
>  > It is also worth pondering whether ext3 has more overhead
> > since it continuously maintains ext2 compatibility along the way.
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Nomad the Wanderer [mailto:nomad at rdlg.net]On Behalf Of Robert L.
> >>Harris
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:54 AM
> >>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> >>Subject: [ale] [Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net: Reiser vs EXT3]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I bounced this to the Kernel list but they may be a bit busy with the
> >>new release.  Thoughts/theories?
> >>
> >>
> >>  Still working on that replacement mail server and a new rumor has hit
> >>the mix.  It follows that reiserfs is much faster than ext3 (made ext3,
> >>not converted from ext2 if it matters) and this is causing some
> >>problems.  On a 200Gig filesystem is this truely an issue?
> 
> 
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