Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Luigi Genoni]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 06:55:09PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>     Don't use RedHat with ReiserFS, they screw things up so many
>     ways.....
>
>     For instance, they compile it with the wrong options set, their
>     boot scripts are wrong, they just shovel software onto the CD.
>
>     Use SuSE, and trust me, ReiserFS will boot faster than ext2.
>
>     Actually, I am curious as to exactly how they manage to make
>     ReiserFS boot longer than ext2.  Do they run fsck or what?
>
> FWIW, Debian although it doesn't support reiserfs "out of the box" at
> present, works flawlessly for a large number of people I know.  I also
> hear Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 work pretty nice if you want a pointy-clicky
> experience :)
>
I could add that also slackware is just faster with / with reiserFS
than with ext2.
But i saw that some of RH init script are, how can I say, redundant....

Luigi

> Since so many people seem to run RedHat, perhaps it's worth someone
> determining exactly what is busted with their init scripts or whatever
> that makes reiserfs barf more often that with other distributions.
>
>
>
>   --cw
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