[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[Kevin E. Ivey]

cbbrowne at hex.net wrote:
> 
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> ... And note that ReiserFS is now in the "official" kernel tree,
> suggesting that it is possibly approaching usability.  It further
> diminishes the likelihood of needing to have manual intervention.
> 
Howdy,

I've been using ReiserFS for over two years now and have never had a
need for maual intervention in all that time.  At first, I didn't format
the /boot partition as Reiser, leaving it ext2.  After zillions (tm) of
Reiser-only installs (mostly Mandrake), I don't even use ext2 at all any
more.

I learned the hard way to keep the filesystems sync'ed in order to avoid
fscking around all day with broken filesystems.

> And has the further advantage that the "fsck equivalent" is guaranteed
> to run in seconds, whereas an fsck of a large ext2 filesystem can run
> for minutes, or even hours, in pathological cases...

Yep, the partitions are up and running as quickly as the ReiserFS
process is started.  Good stuff (and better than NTFS).......

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