ReiserFS & EXT2/3 issues

[James Wilkinson]

Sergey wrote:
> I googled for a while to get advantages of using ext2/3 and reiserfs, and 
> found amazing stuff. Reiser appears to be much better in performance and 
> trouble-shooting, including so called 'pilot error' too.

You have to be a little careful comparing ext2/3 and reiserfs3. Ext2/3
hasn't stood still, and has optional features such as dir_index which
uses hashed b-trees to speed some things up.

See man tune2fs or man mk2efs for details.

But in general, if your Google results don't mention these features, and
aren't on a recent 2.6 kernel, treat them as purely of historical
interest.

James.

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