I did a little googling and came across this on the Sydney Linux Group Mailing
List archives:
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2000/July/msg00206.html
If you follow the thread, there's some interesting info..
HTH,
Donogh.
somebody called Mark Fallon <mark.fallon at oracle.com> wrote:
> "Stefan (stk)" wrote:
> >
> > Can someone explain me the differences between a reiser-fs and a extf2? Or where i
> > can find informations about it?
> >
> > And is it better to use a reiser-fs or a extf2 in a server system?
> >
> > Regards,
> > stk
> >
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> > List maintainer: listmaster at linux.ie>> reiser-fs is a journalling file system, while we will
> have to wait until ext3 to get it there. There
> are definite benefits with this, but recently we have been
> seeing reiser-fs running five times slower than ext2, has
> anybody else seen or know how to resolve this behaviour?
>> Mark
> --
> _______________________________________________________________
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> Product Line Engineering
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