RE: How do I get reiserfs support in RHEL?

["Collins, Kevin [MindWorks]" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

Its hard to have a filesystem with no partitions or more than one partition... :)

Kevin 

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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:35 PM
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Subject: Re: How do I get reiserfs support in RHEL?

> > why would you want to ?
> 
> Reiserfs is superior in RHEL3 against ext3 in certain usage models.
> Haven't tested RHEL4 in this regard yet. But in general, I loathe
> reiserfs 
> because of it's crash-and-burn mentality regarding filesystem recovery.
> 
> Witnessed plenty of people having only corrupted cruft in their disks 
> after a seemingly innocent crash.
> 
> Reiserfs works wonders in a small file & high i/o environment. For
> example 
> a mail gateway running on a SSD. If you value your data, stay away from
> 
> reiserfs.

It is the recommended filesystem for the application I'm going to use. Heavy use 
of mysql 24/7. Thats why I want the filesystem on at least one partition.


>   Jussi

/Christopher

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