[PLUG] Ubuntu 30-boot forced fsck

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Michael Ewan wrote:
> Or you could use a better file system like xfs or reiserfs.  Ext2/3 is 
> SLOW and even with journaling on ext3 you still need to fsck periodicaly 
> like you describe.  XFS and Reiserfs are Btree based and have a native 
> integrated journal so unless your file system has major damage, they 
> won't need to fsck, ever.

Both XFS and ReiserFS (and JFS as well) have some quirks, some 
situations where they rock and some situations where they suck. I've 
seen lots of filesystem benchmarks go by and my net conclusion was that, 
unless you're doing the exact kind of I/O that one of the "alternative" 
filesystems rocks with, you're better off accepting the default you 
distro installs. Most of them default to ext3, but I think one of them 
does default to reiserfs 3.