On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you > > can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth > > sharing. > .... > > In summary, I've been having success managing my home digital storage with > > Debian GNU/Linux on PPC since around 1999, and the only hiccups have been > > broken hardware (dead motherboard, non-compliant firewire enclosures) and > > endianness issues. Not bad. > > > > --Greg > > This juggling to keep all the balls (disks) in the air sounds familiar. > Non-partisan caution: before you settle on Reiserfs, read some recent > threads about Reiserfsck and Reiserfs vs JFS. I went to JFS when > Reiserfsck fscked up my drives. Never had a problem with JFS despite > many power failures.
We made the choice for EXT3 ourselves, since it is the only filesystemm which can be grown online and shrinked offline, and reiserfs is not really a solution. JFS/XFS can be grown online, but not shrinked, so they are problematic. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
