On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 14:53, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > 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? I agree with everything you said, especially with the "fetichistic" part :-) and the comparison with XFS. However, there is one thing ReiserFS is good at: creating/removing lots of small files, especially in a single directory. That's why it's quite good for Squid and news spools. -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially when nobody else is coming up with it. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
