[wellylug] Convert ReiserFS to Ext2

[Enkidu]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:20:11 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:

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>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?
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>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.
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>I am aware that my own experience does not prove anything...
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>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?
>
It shouldn't be much slower overall. Firstly not every access is write
and not every access update the journal, and secondly I believe that
journal writes are very small and fast. 

Cheers,

Cliff