Journaling File Systems...

When I first installed Linux in 1998, I don't remember there being any other file system to use other than Ext2. After 2000, I went a few years without Linux. This time around, when installing Linux, I noticed I could use anything from Ext3 to ReiserFS to JFS etc... I steered clear of these and chose Ext2 because it was all that I knew. Now, after reading an article on journaling file-systems in Linux Magazine, I am convinced I need to use this technology on my next system (which should arrive Friday).

Here's my question: what would you guys suggest as a good file system for a client? I use my system for programming, multimedia (home movies, mp3s, pics, etc...). So far, it seems good to go with Reiser. JFS and XFS seem like overkill for a client and Ext3 is not efficient enough.

What are your opinions?

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Ext 3 has some slowness, I guess, but I use it without any real headaches for my workstation and a couple of servers (not particularly I/O intensive servers, mind you).

Want to have a play with ReiserFS because of the speed. Don't know about the others.

From what I've read, ReiserFS might be worth going for, depending on what you are doing on your workstation.

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When I first installed Linux in 1998, I don't remember there being any other file system to use other than Ext2. After 2000, I went a few years without Linux. This time around, when installing Linux, I noticed I could use anything from Ext3 to ReiserFS to JFS etc... I steered clear of these and chose Ext2 because it was all that I knew. Now, after reading an article on journaling file-systems in Linux Magazine, I am convinced I need to use this technology on my next system (which should arrive Friday).

Here's my question: what would you guys suggest as a good file system for a client? I use my system for programming, multimedia (home movies, mp3s, pics, etc...). So far, it seems good to go with Reiser. JFS and XFS seem like overkill for a client and Ext3 is not efficient enough.

What are your opinions?
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Regards,

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On Integrity:

"I'm going to be as good as they let me and
as mean as they make me, and they all know
that. I don't ever lie. If I tell you a
rooster can fly, get the harness."

--Burl Cain, Louisiana State Pen Warden
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Hi All,

My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0) Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems. Someone else was using it and now when I select the Linux option at boot time, it says that some kernel.exe file is missing and does not boot. Windows boots fine. I tried using a linux boot floppy from another Linux machine (Redhat 6.2) to get into the linux partition and install LILO (thinking that it might be a problem with the loader), but could not find the boot partition mounted. Doing fdisk /dev/hda gives me the error "Unable to load /dev/hda"

Could someone suggest a way out?

Thanks in Advance,
Abhijit.

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Hi All,

My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0) Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems. Someone else was using it and now when I select the Linux option at boot time, it says that some kernel.exe file is missing and does not boot. Windows boots fine. I tried using a linux boot floppy from another Linux machine (Redhat 6.2) to get into the linux partition and install LILO (thinking that it might be a problem with the loader), but could not find the boot partition mounted.

Doing fdisk /dev/hda
gives me the error "Unable to load /dev/hda"

Could someone suggest a way out?

Thanks in Advance,
Abhijit.

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Doing fdisk /dev/hda
gives me the error "Unable to load /dev/hda"

if this ^^^^ is a typo for open,
maybe you were not root and had not permission?

Why do you need fdisk? Do you not know where is /boot?

When I first installed Linux in 1998, I don't remember there being any other file system to use other than Ext2. After 2000, I went a few years without Linux. This time around, when installing Linux, I noticed I could use anything from Ext3 to ReiserFS to JFS etc... I steered clear of these and chose Ext2 because it was all that I knew. Now, after reading an article on journaling file-systems in Linux Magazine, I am convinced I need to use this technology on my next system (which should arrive Friday).

Here's my question: what would you guys suggest as a good file system for a client? I use my system for programming, multimedia (home movies, mp3s, pics, etc...). So far, it seems good to go with Reiser. JFS and XFS seem like overkill for a client and Ext3 is not efficient enough.

What are your opinions?