[wellylug] Convert ReiserFS to Ext2

[David Antliff]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> And really: why would you want to do that?
> Swap reliability and speeed for ext2?

I'd have to disagree with your implied 'reliability' claim. I know quite a
few people who have had fatal and complete corruptions with recent
versions of ReiserFS. I would argue that ext2 is considerably more
reliable. This is just in my own limited experience and therefore purely
my opinion (although shared by many). I don't use ext2 any more either - I
mostly use XFS. I have had one filesystem corruption with XFS two years
ago, but since then it's performed normally.

I am aware that my own experience does not prove anything...

Also, I was under the impression that the presence of a journal can slow
down overall filesystem throughput, since data is written to the journal
as well as the final write. Is this true?

-- 
David