[huskerlug] Re: Advice -- RedHat version support(No free lunch!)

        Sounds good to me, I have come to the final conclusion that SuSE 7.3
and perhaps later versions of it, does not like screen resolutions of 
640x480, which I really, really like.   However, I have to do too many 
resets, and that does have at least a bad effect on my kmail --- and 
who knows what else -- causing me to retype quite a bit of information 
in my kmail settings on one computer at least.   I'm not happy about 
that.
        Anyway, ReiserFS has it all over EXT2 and probably so do the other
journalling systems.  Yep, and I have UPS's on my major computers 
also.  ---Jim


On Saturday 27 September 2003 10:39, you wrote:
> >     What I read RedHat still doesn't want to use it and prefers EXT3
> > because of it's backward compatibilty with EXT2.  ---Jim
>
> Another reason is that the file system repair utilities for Reiser
> aren't as mature as for ext2/3.  Even with a journal, file systems
> will sometimes require fixing.  Also, for those who need it, ext3
> can journal the actual data was well as the meta data.  Reiser, and
> most other journaled file systems, only write the meta data to the
> journal.
>
> As for performance, there have been enough benchmarks out that
> support either one as a better performer, that the only way to know
> for sure which is better it to test each one for your particular
> application and choose the one that works best.  The one place where
> I think where Reiser will definitely win is where you have a lot of
> small files in a directory (e.g. squid caches). IIRC, Reiser
> directory access uses a hash table to look for a file in a
> directory, where as ext2/3 just searches for it sequentially
> (although I think support for hash table lookups in ext3 has been
> added to 2.6). Reiser4 is a different story all together and I can't
> wait to try it (the reliability of a journaled file system without
> the performance impact).
>
> I'd still recommend a decent UPS for production systems even if they
> use journaled file systems.  The UPS is not only good for power loss
> situations, but it helps to "clean" the power up for your system. 
> Brown out situations can have interesting effects on a box.

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