how to convert to ReiserFS ?

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Mon Jul 3 21:01:53 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 13:03 -0400, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >
> >> ReiserFS is faster than ext3. ext3 is more stable and better tested.
> > 
> > This means, that ReiserFS is unstable?
> > 
> > Do you have any *CURRENT* prove for that? ReiserFS had some serious
> > bugs "way back then", but currently?
> > 
> 
> Well, that's the thing about filesystems... could there still be bugs
> lurking around in ReiserFS?  Ext3, built on the much older Ext2, has had
> a _much_ longer service time and much wider deployment.
> 
> Ext3 is _more_ stable, but that does _NOT_ mean that ReiserFS is
> UNstable.  Reiser is currently used on many large systems and has many
> proponents.
> 
> 
I very much doubt that there are any major bugs left in either fs. Both
are equally mature now to be equally stable, and both reached the point
of stability a long time ago. It's now a question of which fs's tools do
you know better as the major decision maker

alan





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