From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from Darkmere.psychozone (foo.stahl.nu [194.18.231.27]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC2EAC7BF for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:32:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: from Darkmere.psychozone (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Darkmere.psychozone (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E9194A9F2 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 23:29:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:29:28 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reiserfs Message-Id: <20020514232928.5d704f60.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200205141907.20610.arutha@gmx.de> References: <23DFAA462CC6A64487613B0E242D9FF706EC65@mercury.phoenix-interactive.com> <200205141707.06913.arutha@gmx.de> <200205141039.19317.jsmith@kcco.com> <200205141907.20610.arutha@gmx.de> Organization: Chaotic X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.MiuEi5Z79EXo_N" Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: df189c7d-37e6-4fd0-87e3-b97c5ec9149d X-Archives-Hash: 310ce4817dd84f84fb4eecd0647de5f1 --=.MiuEi5Z79EXo_N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Tue, 14 May 2002 19:07:20 +0200 Alexander Gretencord wrote: > > There are problems with those too. As said earlier (and Mark mentions > it too) ext2 sucks :) I have no personal experience with JFS but the > german computer magazine c't tested reiser, ext3, XFS and JFS lately > and they had very serious stability problems with JFS. So it's > basically ext3 against XFS. One is a very intrusive patch and the > other is ext2 + journaling which is fine if you only need a journaling > fs and don't care about other deficiencies of ext2. > For a while (1.0.1-1.0.5 or so) I was testing and packaging JFS for redhat-derived systems, and it was snappy and nice, but the fsck tools needed some serious work.. and although it worked nicely in most cases (had some issues with rejects and all that crap) when the system well crapped up and fscked, It worked... until the last time..... then things didn't work. at all :p I lost directory contents on my /home (no biiig loss since I had backups) and was generally fed up with the small (500 Meg) /home partition, so JFS died on my system then.. since that time its come further and I'm actually inclined on testing it again, though Id need more harddrive space for that... (hint hint ;) What I liked about JFS contra XFS was that it wasn't as intrusive as XFS .. it was a "nice" patch that touched fewer files and modified less of the kernel behaviour. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=.MiuEi5Z79EXo_N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE84YG8ZS9CZTi033kRAmX/AJ9D5hpJIpAPeo2nhZ77JUiuVO28OgCeIL3G or/WcoozElcH76QB54n4+/U= =QZQg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.MiuEi5Z79EXo_N--