On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Robert Davies wrote:
> I use Reiser mostly now, but once ext3 has had time to settle down may use it
> for filesystems like /, /boot, /home, /usr, with Reiser for /opt, /var,
> /var/spool. ext2 compatability is attractive for system filesystems, because
> of convenient, recovery disks. This may well be blown out of the water if I
> use LVM + raidtools for everything.
I *do* now use LVM + raidtools on new boxes but have been using ext3 on
our newest server because I wanted to vary the filesystems in use. I'm
hoping to perform some benchmarks at some point :-)
> XFS or JFS may slip past on the rails, and overtake Reiser clearly. There's
> not really a clear winner yet, more a mix of pro's and cons. But the new
> fs's are clear wins against ext2.
Yes but that was never the point really was it? I'd say ext3 is very cool
if you want something that's backward compatible and will probably end up
the most stable of the lot.
--jcm
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