FileSystem Question

[Windows_SuX_@$$]

I had installed Knoppix on my HD a few days agao, I chose ReiserFS... I want to know if its any good or if I had maybe made a wrong choice... Thanks

(Don't Say Knoppix Sucks)

[Seth]

quote:I had installed Knoppix on my HD a few days agao, I chose ReiserFS... I want to know if its any good or if I had maybe made a wrong choice... Thanks  

From my understanding, it is a journalled filesystem similar to ext3 except it works better on large parttions with lots of small files.
Red hat seem to prefer ext 3 and SuSE goes with RS (by defaults when installing their OSs).
I don't think it makes much of difference in a PC, but for a large scale stuff I guess it depends on what you are trying to do with your machines (SMP or otherwise) -
 reading/writing
 data warehousing etc.

[Calum]

i always find reiser to be less stable (or less useful) than ext3. i suspect this is because you can mount ext3 as an old ext2 filesystem for the purpose of recovery disks etc. if you use aknoppix CD as your recovery disk, this isn'taproblem but i still use tomsrtbt which doesn't support reiserfs, and i simply stick with ext3 because it works and i understand how it works as much as i need to.