Which journaling filesystem is most robust?
Jerry Feldman
gaf at blu.org
Thu Nov 15 13:29:49 EST 2001
Another reason to stay away from it is you cannot resize a reaserfs
partition. Habitually, I set up a root, var, home and possibly one or 2
other partitions, mainly because I hate waiting for a big partiton to fsck in
the event my system goes down unexpectedly. Reiser does mitigate this
though.
On 15 Nov 2001, at 11:02, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I would stay away from reiserfs -- it breaks the userspace
> inode abstraction (meaning the inode number you get from
> stat() or readdir() does not uniquely identify the file!)
>
> I don't know enough about the other FSs to give a reasonable
> response to you.
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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