Frank, I think it depends on what you're going to do with the drive. At work I run about 50 systems and we run ext3 on all of them. I really think that ext3 is way more stable than reiserfs. The problem comes in when you're trying to do low latency work, ext3 just doesn't cut it. On my audio system I use my secondary disk for audio only and I back up my sessions to CD using the bundle tools that I just wrote so I'm not too worried about disk crashes. Reiserfs is a lot more stable now than it was when I first used it about three years ago though. Jan On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:16, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Jan Evil Twin Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Evil Twin Depner wrote: > > > I haven't had any problems on my system and I've had a couple of pretty > > nasty power outages. > > At work, where we have a SuSE samba server, we had a crash on a > reiserfs disk about a year ago, where we would have needed stable fsck > tools. Then the reisertools weren't much help to our more capable > sysadmin, because they just seemed not finished. Since then I don't > trust reiser very much, but maybe it has changed now. At work we're > still running reiserfs, though, even on out web server... ;) > > Maybe I really should change, at least my freshly installed laptop... > > ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__