[PLUG] It's Here!!

[Jason R. Martin]

>>I use ext2 for the boot partition and reiserfs for everything else.
>>I've been doing this for over 6 years and I've had zero problems.
>>Yeah, ext3 has more recovery modes, but most of the recovery CDs can
>>handle reiserfs and I haven't needed them (recovery CDs) for
>>filesystem problems, so why mess with success?
> 
> 
> One reason is, if I'm not mistaken, ext3 is a "journaling" file system,
> whereas ext2 is not.  So there's less chance of corruption, and if you
> should ever crash, ext3 will not have to scan your partition when you
> reboot.

ReiserFS is also a journaling file system, along with jfs and xfs.  In 
some circumstances (which I can't remember off the top of my head right 
now) ReiserFS performs better than ext3, but not in a manner that you 
will be able to notice on a laptop hard drive.

I believe up until recently ReiserFS didn't support the extended 
attributes used by SELinux, so I don't know if SuSE Pro 9.3 has a 
version that supports it.  However, if memory serves me, SuSE doesn't 
ship with SELinux turned on anyway.

Jason