Re: How do I get reiserfs support in RHEL?

["James Marcinek" <jmarc1 jemconsult biz>]

Would jfs be a good alternative instead of reiserfs?

arjanv redhat com,"Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
<taroon-list redhat com> wrote: 
> 
> > It is the recommended filesystem for the application I'm going to use.
> 
> it's also very much not supported by Red Hat. At all. 
> 
> >  Heavy use 
> > of mysql 24/7. Thats why I want the filesystem on at least one partition.
> 
> ext3 isn't too bad for mysql either; reiserfs' strength is the case
> where you have ten and ten thousands of files in a single directory;
> however databases don't do that.
> 
> You may want to change journalling mode to be writeback, eg the same as
> reiserfs (by default ext3 has a more strict journalling mode which costs
> some performance but gives higher data integrity, not just metadata
> integrity like reiserfs does in rhel3; however you can turn this off to
> the same level as protection as reiserfs gives and get back the
> performance costs. Also these costs are only on file creation/extension,
> not something databases do a lot)
> 
>