ext3 vs. reiserfs

[Toby Corkindale]

On the other hand, for those of us who can write entire sentances without
missing every second word, ReiserFS presents a quite viable, fast and
reliable filesystem.

I have seen recent versions of reiser survive quite nasty hardware failures
quite well, either as well as, or better than, ext2 filesystems.

Toby

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Mike O'Connor wrote:

> Hi Jason
>
> I seen two many reiser file system which were corrupted, files which would
> not delete, whole partitions which were corrupt. The reiser fixing tools are
> not up to the job.
>
> In the last 9 month or so I have had to rebuild or copy data of reiser
> partitions and covert them to ext3 over 15 times, for different people and
> companies.
>
> Were as all the ext3 system I have set-up have not once had any problems and
> because of the backward compatibility the ext2 fixing tools are there as a
> backup.
>
> So my recommendation is not to go near reiser.
>
> Cheers
>   Mike
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jason pernito" <jasonp_hypertech at skyinet.net>
> To: <linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:43 PM
> Subject: ext3 vs. reiserfs
>
>
> > hello,
> >
> > any idea on the advantage of using ext3 over reiserfs or vice versa?
> >
> > i got the assistance from Mike on how to convert ext2 to ext3 but still
> have to consider reiserfs.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > ##jason##
> >
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