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Re: Journalling filesystems



I guess i will give it a try!!!
> > > I am using ReiserFs on my Mandrake 7.1 Box. It does feel faster than
> > ext2..
> > can it be used on red hat systems???
> 
> ReiserFS is distributed as a patch for linux-2.2.16, linux-2.3.99 and
> linux-2.4.0-test6. You can doanload the patch from
> http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/ web-site... it also has details
> about the file system and some papers... depending on which ever kernel
> you're using, you can download the appropiate patch.. i have
> successfully compile all three kernels with ReiserFS support... (and I
> use RedHat... but that doesn't matter here).... right now I'm running
> linux-2.2.17 with ReiserFS support.. (i'd patched 2.2.16 with reiserfs
> and then applied the 2.2.17 patch) Ieven used it over RAID and LVM and
> it works beautifully... I have 3 2GB patitions running on it and all my
> data is entrusted to it... till date i've had no problems... speed is
> good enough... (you can get benchmarks at the reiserfs web site) Plus
> half of SourceForge.Net runs on ReiserFS... I'm planning to put it on a
> live server of mine but it shouldn't be a problem... I can vouch for
> it... you can also subscribe to its mailing list to get more updated
> info...