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[Bao C. Ha]

> 
> I run and have run ReiserFS on my desktop machine that I use 
> on quite a
> daily basis and have never had any problems with it. The choice of
> journaling file systems to run is largely a religious debate, 
> but Reiser
> is a good one and my preferred one for now. It is stable and in
> benchmarks has been seen to surpass ext2 in performance even with the
> overhead of journaling. ext3 has been recommended because of its easy
> conversion from ext2 but if you already have Reiser that is a moot
> point. ext3 can also journal the data instead of just the 
> metadata like
> Reiser if you turn that on, but it takes a _major_ 
> performance hit to do
> that.  

Ext3 has about the same performance on my machine, as
ext2.  How big is the performance advantage of RiserFS
compared to ext2/ext3?

Bao

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