Hi Ashley, Adam & all Yep go with ext3. Unlike reiserfs, ext3 also stores meta-data of data, meaning that there is a journal of data <including data contents> as well as a journal of the sectors most recently written. Plus you get backwards compatibility with ext2 tools. ext3 is literally ext2 + a couple of journal files & kernel extensions to manage them. So the non-aware ext2 tools will work; they'll treat the journals as just another file. Reiserfs is a bit faster though, esp. with small files - but I like proven reliability + proven toolsets. ...now if either of them indexed the fs as well... ?:^) brodders ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley @ Turton" <ashley@turton.com> To: "Paul" <paul.corner@tesco.net>; <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Alug] Problem with linux mandrake 8.1 box on boot
on 14/3/02 10:01 pm, Paul at paul.corner@tesco.net wrote:
Hi Ashley, Adam
I have had some success in recovering data from IDE drives when everyone
else
thought them to be beyond hope. Plug the drive into another machine as a slave, and try mounting it. I suspect that the reiserfs might cause problems though.
Will try.
One advantage of ext3 is it can be mounted as an ext2 file system - I don't suppose it is possible to do the same with reiserfs...
This is very useful. I will use ext3, instead of reiser, when I reinstall.
Ashley
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