[SLE] File system type

From: elefino (kevinmcl_at_magma.ca)
Date: 08/31/05

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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:08:54 -0400

    Time to fill another gap or two in my knowledge.

    In another list, in a thread that I found while googling for info
    about cyrus and postfix, I ran into a conversation where
    someone suggested that (for the purposes of the other people
    in the conversation - most of them setting up or managing
    fairly large mail systems) ext3fs was not as good as reiserfs, and
    they should do this:

    "In /etc/fstab go to the /var [entry] and change it to something like
     /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /var reiserfs
     data=writeback,noatime 1 2

     Reboot the system "

    I think the implication was that you can change the fs just by
    changing an fstab entry. Is that true?
    I thought that sort of thing would have been laid down at
    formatting time and just formalized in fstab, and would therefore
    be a bit more difficult to overhaul than just an edit of one file and a
    reboot.

    Also, while we're on the subject, is Reiserfs the hands-down better,
    faster, more reliable-in-both-ordinary-and-extreme-situations,
    file-system? A Linux Journal article from a couple of years ago seemed
    to think so, and supplied several feature-comparison tables to prove it.
     Or is that the kind of question likely to stir up
    religious wars? (in which case, forget I asked :-)

    Kevin 

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