Re: [tlug] xfs, jfs, reiser

[B0Ti <9915104t@example.com>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002 09:17:27 +0200
Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:36:56PM +0900, B0Ti wrote:
> > reiserfs is only journaling metadata only (The filesystem itself will 
> > be consistent after recovery, but the data in the files is not 
> > guaranteed to be).

> huh? what's the point of a consistent filesystem if the data 
> is inconcistent? makes it pretty useless.
The point is that your filesystem won't be currupted as a whole. 
Maybe you haven't seen something like this before (with ext2):
"Couldn't mount root partition.
Dropping you to a shell, plese enter the root password:"


> on ext3 the mandatory fsck after so a number of mounts still
> takes the full time like before, and usually happens when i am
> in a hurry. why can't this be done in multiuser mode?
That would cause an even greater corruption.  Just think about it.

>and knowing the above i won't use reiser for anything else either.
Journaling data too adds an overhead, that's why it's not enabled by default in ext3.


-- 
B0Ti.