[tech] A question of File System

[Simon Fryer]

Bingle

> A while ago Riff tapped:

> Now I stress here that I DON'T WANT TO START A 'my fs is better then
> yours cause I said so' FLAME WAR.
> 
> but...
> The question I have now been asking myself, while having the occasionaly
> random argument with others; is which file system is better: ext3 or
> ReiserFS
> Which do you think has more extensibility?, more usefulness?, more
> ability to recover from unclean mounts?, which has a higher overhead?
> and most importantly, which one is more |337?
> 
> Of course, feel free to suggest a better filesystem still (noone may
> suggest NTFS or FAT*)

UFS works for me but I still use reletivly small hard drives (<10G) The 
file system seem to be mostly portable between OS's (OpenBSD, Tru64). 

See Ya
Simon

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