Dow Hurst writes:
> I have read Danny Cox's email about his sound problems where he
> complains about long fsck times on large filesystems. I was having
> those same problems in miniature on a 4Gb drive. After switching to
> SuSE 6.4, which offers the ReiserFS journaling file systems, I never
> wait for fsck to run. I have only / and /boot as ext2 filesystems. All
> others are ReiserFS. The check time for each filesystem is a second or
> less. My experience with XFS under IRIX and ReiserFS under Linux leads
> me to say go with a journaling filesystem under Linux now that they are
> available. I know that the open source version of XFS is now available
> for Linux so take a look at SGI's open source repository.
I pretty much agree with you, except that I've got a 10 Gig Suse
install and Reiserfs takes 8 seconds longer after an unsafe shutdown.
So it is still very fast, but not instantaneous. I'll be trying it on
a 30 gig partition, soon.
If I understand things, the time should depend more on the size of the
journal, not the size of the filesystem. But it may be thet SuSE
makes the sizes proportional.
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