Brian's Stupid questions of the day (FS part)

[Rocky McGaugh]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Does anybody know what the difference is between the Journaling File System
> (jfs) and the Reiser File System; and which one I should use?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian
> 

JFS is not really an option right now. It is still very alpha quality,
fsck.jfs doesnt even really work yet. I hope to someday use this on linux,
i liked it on AIX.

Reiser can be a good option. I have several boxes with resiserfs at home,
and like it very much. Several vendors, such as BigStorage, are already
offering production boxes with reiserfs. SuSE has been using reiser on
most of their production systems for over a year now, and sell production
sstems pre-installed with reiserfs and LVM. Problem i have with reiserfs
is it is not in the production kernel. If/when a new kernel comes out, you
have to either wait for them to patch to the new kernel, or patch it
yourself. My problem here is, if i patch it myself, then it obviously has
not had much testing done on it and that presents the possibility of
having mad problems. I have also noticed that they are spending most of
their time with reiserfs on 2.4.x, and neglecting the 2.2 kernels. I for
one have no plans on going to the 2.4 kernels on my production boxes
anytime soon. 2.2 is buggy enough, no way i wanna goto 2.4 yet with all
its massive changes.

EXT3 is another option, as is XFS. EXT3 is still beta. I know at least 100
people running reiserfs, and not a single person who uses EXT3. VALinux
just announced a "NAS" device based on EXT3. We'll see how this works..:)

XFS is also pre-beta like JFS, so it not really an option either.

So there's alot of options, and a lot of promise, but no perfect solution
yet...:(

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Rocky McGaugh
rmcgaugh at atipa.com