What's the fuss about reiserfs?

[bdg1983]

I keep hearing how excellent reiserfs is. I don't know much about it, so I'd like to know what you guys/gals think. Is it better than ext2, and if it is, what makes it better?

TIA for any info.

[stiles]

This (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html) page gives you a good explanation of the various filesystems making their way into the linux world.

Yes ext2's days are numbered, but I think that XFS will be the eventual 'winner' in the new filesystem race.

[sans-hubris]

Boot times < 15 sec. even after power failures (always gotta wait for the daemons to load up, can't do much about'em)

[DrDebian]

Originally posted by NGene:
<STRONG>I keep hearing how excellent reiserfs is. I don't know much about it, so I'd like to know what you guys/gals think. Is it better than ext2, and if it is, what makes it better?

TIA for any info.</STRONG>

It is definitely better than the ageing Ext2. The main improvement gained through ReiserFS is Journaling. This means that the filesystem itself can never become inconsistent. All it needs to do after a crash is roll back it's journal logfiles and undo the incomplete file operations. This takes substantially less time than a traditional fsck run on a Ext2 partition.

Apart from that, ReiserFS improves the speed at which older (read slower) disks can be used. Thanks to it's intelligent way of arranging things on the disk, seek times are reduced as well.

In short, I can only say "Go Reiser"! ;)