Jean Francois Martinez wrote: >On Fri, 3 May 2002 23:31:39 +0200 >"Florian Lindner" <Florian.Lindner@xgm.de> wrote: > > > >>Hello, >>will it be possible to choose ReiserFS as the filesystem type while >>performing the graphical installation in Redhat 7.2/8.0 ? >> >> >> > >What I would like to know is why some people are fetichistic about >ReiserFS. While since some people have ReiserFS partitions >I understand the need for supposrting ReiserFS in >upgrades a thing RedHat 7.2 and I think 7.1 provided, I fail to see >why anyone would want to set a NEW ReiserFS partition. Contrarily >to ext3 it does not keep data coherency, its partitions cannot be >read by older kernels and it does not allow upgrade in place. >Contrarily to XFS it does not support ACLs and it suffers of >performance hiccups who make it unusable for streaming. It also >looks like it is slower than XFS and I have noticed in some cases >it is quite slow >at recovering from crashes while XFS is ever blindingly fast. >Contrarily to JFS it cannot be resised on the fly. > >So what is so special about ReiserFS? > > > Have not played with XFS so I cannot comment but I have one system here I have to use Reiser on becasue it has about 1.5 million files and I could not create a file system with enough inodes using ext2. Alvin Starr || voice: (416)585-9971 Interlink Connectivity || fax: (416)585-9974 alvin@iplink.net || _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
