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[ILUG] NTFS is better than ext3?

[ILUG] NTFS is better than ext3?

Liam Bedford lbedford at lbedford.org
Thu Dec 5 14:50:03 GMT 2002


On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:37, Satelle, StevenX wrote:
>  
> >> Hmm perhaps you should try out Reiserfs for file size/speed or XFS for
> >> speed.
> >Use reiserfs and watch your data vanish.
> 
> Is that extra feature free or do you have to pay for it?
> 
hmm, snip my sig please :)

no, it's a free feature.. just turn your machine off a couple of times
and you should get some corrupt data out of reiser. Out of the people I
know who were running, the majority of them have lost data (including
me). At the very least, turn off the tail optimization (mount option
notail).

L.
-- 
Liam Bedford <lbedford at lbedford.org>




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