From: Les M. <le...@fu...> - 2004-02-06 05:47:51
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On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 23:22, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't feel comfortable running either ReiserFS or XFS > on my systems here, so I have ext3 everywhere. > > I was not comfortable with ReiserFS (v3) because of the implementation > style: despite not having reliable code for a very long time, the developers > didn't implement anything resembling a reliable fsck until much later. > In practice, I had much more trouble with e2fs in those days than ReiserFS. While most of the errors I saw were recoverable, the automatic run of e2fsck would refuse to fix them so after a power outage a machine would be dead until someone manually did the e2fsck and stood there for hours holding down the 'y' key. There is an enormous difference in the time it takes to search a large directory or add or remove files. By the way, I don't think I've seen this mentioned here but if you have a huge backuppc directory online you probably want to exclude it from the runs that build the database for locate. On RedHat at least, this is in /etc/updatedb.conf. --- Les Mikesell le...@fu... |