I googled for a while to get advantages of using ext2/3 and reiserfs, and found amazing stuff. Reiser appears to be much better in performance and trouble-shooting, including so called 'pilot error' too. Who mentioned that you have to pay for support? Ok, you've got to. But this only applies to general support - fixing bugs is in interest of developers, look in its utils ChangeLog. It's for sure that the final decision is up to you. As for me, I choose reiser. I will post any issues I will deal with while using reiser. Ext3 has failed and that is it! I can not afford to let it fail again - it's too expensive. Verified: Fedora installer (anaconda) installs to reiser well, without any problems. You just have to mkreiserfs prior to installation, and choose do NOT format a partition during install. Sergey. ----- Original Message ----- From: James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: ReiserFS & EXT2/3 issues Date: Thursday 01 December 2005 13:38 >Mike McGrath wrote: >> I use reiserfs and love it. I wish RedHat would be more open to using >> it, not even including it in the install seems a bit much to me. Though >> I think you can install with reiserfs if you do a linux reiserfs while >> booting from the CD, I haven't tested it. > >The problem is "how many questions do you want there to be in the >install?" > >A lot of the work going into Fedora (and desktop Linux in general) is >aimed at making it much easier for "non-techies", for want of a better >word, to use. The idea is that some questions are inevitable, but they >should be things that only the user can be expected to know (like their >name and which ISP they're using). > >Questions (or options) that relate to the way the *internals* of the >machine behave mean new users will be asked to think about something >they're not familiar with (so they'll think the install is hard). Note >that documentation isn't the answer: it enables them to answer >questions, it can't make the Right Answer immediately obvious. > >I'm sorry that the Original Poster had problems with his ext3 >installation (did he change the way it was listed in /etc/fstab?) I've >heard of very few problems with ext3 (and about as many with reiserfs), >and many of them turned out to be "pilot error". > >For most users, it's simpler for Fedora to make the choice for them. > >James. >-- >E-mail address: james | I suppose if one has to go mad, slowly is the way to >@westexe.demon.co.uk | go. You wouldn't want to rush going mad, you might > > | miss some of the good bits. > | -- Paul Tomblin
