Re: [SLE] reiser or ext3

From: Per Jessen (per_at_computer.org)
Date: 02/11/05

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    devosc wrote:

    > But in my bios I've enabled S.M.A.R.T, and I'm hoping that [a] there
    > are no real conflicts, e.g. because one drive supports it and the
    > other doesn't, because [b] I'm going to also enable smartd in YaST.

    No need to worry, smartd will query the drives and determine their level of SMART support.

    > I was told that ext3 has journalling stuff so as to help it recover...
    > but then from a thread here I was under the impression that reiser may
    > also do something similiar, in particular in response to a question
    > about recovering from hard reboots.

    Yes, ext3, xfs, reiserfs and jfs are all journaling file-systems. If you drive has genuine
    problems, they won't help you recover any better or any faster, but a 300Gb JFS filesystem will
    recover a lot faster from an unscheduled outage than a 300Gb ext2 ditto.

    JFS is IBMs Linux-port of HPFS w/journaling from OS2 Warp Server, and as such it goes quite way
    back.

     

    /Per Jessen, Zürich 

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