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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:52:32 +0300 From: Ira Abramov <lists-svlug@ira.abramov.org> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Re: filesystems? Quoting josh, from the post of Tue, 13 Aug: > Hi all! > > I'm installing slackware on what will be my companies webserver. It's > not a huge place or anything, so this leftover k6-2/500 will do fine. > I've always gone with just the default choices on the install, but I > just got to wondering about all these new filesystems that are > available - ext3 and reiserFS spring readily to mind. Are any of > these filesystems actually ready to use by newbies like me? And if > so, what are the strengths/weaknesses of each? it's a hot debate issue and there are different stats for different usage patterns. for what you describe, ext3 might be the right choice. it it were a busy mail server I would have recommended Reiser instead. both seem stable, but Reiser is more mature. I never had a Reiser die on me, and only one case of a really bad ext3 screw-up that wasn't saved by neither rollback nor fsck. your call. ===