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johnmann
04-19-2001, 01:19 AM
Most of the distributions I have give this file system option, but what is this file system?Is it better than ext2? What's the pros&cons if any?

PLBlaze
04-19-2001, 02:07 AM
Search the forums for answers... or check reiserfs home page (http://www.reiserfs.org) .In sohrt reiserfs is fast and uses journaling so fsck's take only seconds.

vodka
04-19-2001, 02:34 AM
blah dont tell him to go research it. he just wants a quick answer!
1. Reiserfs rocks ***!
2. it's FAST
3. it's journaling, so it will be much less likely to loose any data
4. it checks itself for consistency in no time at all ( 1 sec for 50GB on my sys)

bdg1983
04-19-2001, 05:48 AM
blah dont tell him to go research it. he just wants a quick answer!

I guess that was meant to be a joke since you gave the same answer as PLBlaze. :rolleyes: