XFS vrs ReiserFS [Was]ReiserFS good idea on RH9?

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

Hello All,

	So ReiserFS is solid, how does SGI's XFS compare to that ? Anybody have
any comments on this ? 

	Cheers,

	Aly.


On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 15:25, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 04:31, Dave Altonaga wrote:
> > I got a little more curious about using reiserfs on
> > RH9
> > So, I dump slackware and install RH9 using reiserfs.
> > Things seem to run alot smoother but I'd have to
> > credit that to only installing gnome and not all the
> > extra stuff.
> > But as a note I am not planning on running a file
> > server service. 
> > 
> > I would suggest for running services to use ext3. To
> > me I know it works great and there should not be any
> > problems.
> 
> On any given day, I'm dumping customer's HD contents to a ReiserFS
> partition on my server - anywhere from a few gigs upward of 50-60gb -
> along with the daily bits of moving around MP3's, AVI's, MPG's and
> SVCD's - when I was using ext3, I had a much slower go of it, but since
> using ReiserFS, it's definitely been smoother. This is a network file
> server and all the "user" homes reside on ReiserFS, IMAP lives on
> ReiserFS; I had been a proponent of ext3 for quite some time until I
> "tested" ReiserFS for that reason - now I can't/won't go back.
> 
> My 2 microns.
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Aly S.P Dharshi
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