Re: Q: how to switch to reiserfs?

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris opensourceadvocate org>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steven W. Orr wrote:

>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:35:04 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Steven W. Orr <steveo syslang net>
>To: Tym Rehm <trehm fitnessquest com>
>Cc: seawolf-list redhat com
>Reply-To: seawolf-list redhat com
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>Subject: Re: Q: how to switch to reiserfs?
>
>Reiserfs is the journaling filesystem written by Hans Reiser. The best way
>to describe what reiserfs is to take a system with a running reiserfs on
>it and just pull the plug on it. Then when you reboot you get to note that
>there is no fsck to run. Very cool. Also, data transfers are just plain
>faster. One caveat: Don't use it if the partition is to be nfs served.
>Yet.

There is a reiserfsck that runs.  ;o)  It just only needs to be
ran when the journal fails so it can ensure your filesystem is
totally unrecoverable.  ;o)


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