From: Joshua E Warchol (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 00:23:47 EDT
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:10:58PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
> > > >> Reiserfs, as discussed here not too long ago, apparently has problems.
> > > >> It's also slightly slower than ext2 because of its journaling. Since
> > > >> it's a less-mature filesystem than ext2, and its only benefit is a
> > > >> faster fsck at boot (which only happens after an abnormal shutdown or
> > > >> a crash), I don't see why you'd want to risk it.
> > > >
> > > > Are you *REALLY* sure the *ONLY* benefit of reiserfs is the "faster
> > > > fsck at boot"?
> > >
> > > When it comes to a SOHO server, yeah, I'd say reiserfs isn't going to gain
> > > him much. Despite ext2's drawbacks (lacking journaling), I've still never
> > > lost a filesystem on it that wasn't related to hardware blowing up.
> > >
> >
> > The 'faster fsck at boot' actually says a lot especially for those
> > consultants that had needed to nursemaid a secretary through the 'run fsck
> > the journaling of Reiser saves a lot of us the trouble.
>
> Secretaries running mail servers?
Are these Secretaires single?
-- Joshua Warchol UNIX Systems Administrator DSL.net - To unsubscribe, send mail to with content (not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users
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