On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:26:52AM -0500, Ed Carp wrote:
> > p.s. reiserfs was a godsend to me. On a squid server I have, using ext2fs
> > I had to re-format the partision about once every 6 weeks because it would
> > get all messed up. I've had reiserfs on it for the past 7 months and
> > havn't had one problem (I had no UPS on it, so a power falure was a hard
> > crash, and ext2 kept messing stuff up)
>
> That's bad news, but I seem to recall kernel notes somewhere that in certain
> versions of the kernel, ext2 was screwed up. It also seems to not like certain
> hardware.
>
> Also, if it's taken you an hour to fsck a 4 GB partition, seems like you're
> either running a dog-slow machine, or you've got hardware problems anyway. It
> takes me about 20 minutes to run fsck on 25 GB worth of drive space on an AMD
> K6-2/266 with 64 MB of RAM.
Well, if it takes you 20 minutes to fsck a 25 GB drive, then there's
something wrong with your setup or the speed of your hardware, too. On
my 20G partition (just 1/3 full, 4k blocksize, 16k per inode) full
e2fsck takes under *two* minutes. Really.
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