[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: New Computer -- which distro

[Kevin Brannen]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

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>>p.p.s., Do yourself a favor and don't use ext2 or ext3 as your main
>>filesystem.
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>Sigh.  Still waiting to see the reasoning for this quantified by you.  
>It's one thing to talk about features, but it's another to expense
>proven reliability and compatibility.  Especially when deployed at
>Fortune 100 companies that don't agree with you at all.  ;->
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I'm not a Fortune 100 company, nor do I work at one (maybe a F1000 
though)...

>I've yet to lose an Ext2/Ext3 filesystem.  Have lost numerous ReiserFS
>(even when the off-line tools were supposedly "compatible") and a few
>XFS (largely /var filesystems due to the well-known 1.0 bug).  Never
>deployed JFS, largely because it was ported from OS/2 instead of AIX and
>lacked full compatibility (for much of the same reasons as ReiserFS)
>prior to kernel 2.6, although I've heard that has now changed.
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I've had several Ext2 FS get so corrupt, we might as well call them 
lost.  They generally got that way because of power loss, IIRC.  Yeh I 
know, that's the worst thing you can do to a FS, but that's life sometimes.

I've lost 1 Ext3 FS, not hurting and get most of the files back off, but 
totally lost and useless dead.  I don't remember the circumstances, but 
that put me off Ext3.

I've had very good luck with Reiser, but then I've generally used Suse 
systems, so I view that as Reiser done right.  Most Reiser horror 
stories I hear were on RedHat systems.  Following the money of who 
supports who, that tells me Reiser is good on Suse, and use Ext3 on RH. 
:-)  FWIW, I have seen a Reiser FS cook itself, but after much testing 
plus wailing & gnashing of teeth, Chris Cox and I have decided that its 
not Reiser's fault, but the hardware (an ill-begotten piece of garbage 
manufactured by Compaq, their other models may be OK, but the n610c is 
one to stay away from!).

YMMV and all that... :-)

Kevin