On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:31, Michael Loftis wrote:
>--On March 25, 2006 3:19:03 PM -0700 Michael Loftis
> <mloftis AT wgops DOT com>
>
>wrote:
>> I'd tend to recommend ReiserFS or XFS first (to me Reiser is better,
>> XFS second...Reiser seems to handle corruption a little better,
>> except in the case of tail  corruption in which case you lose all
>> the tails on the filesystem possibly), followed by ext3.  Ext2 isn't
>> an option because for 500+G you need journalling.
>
>I should also note that I say reiser's tools are better because they
>actually fix the filesystem.  XFS we've had filesystems never quite
> fix after needing to be fixed by the xfs tools.  They kept coming up
> with more errors, or crashing the machine despite the filesystem
> checking out as 'fine' after forcing a full check.
>
That wasn't the case the last time I tangled with a fubar'd reiserfs, 
but in fairness, I will say that this was probably >4 years back too.  
A lot can be done in 4 years.

>> Reiser will take a while to mount such a large filesystem....As may
>> XFS. I haven't treied anything that big recently with ext3 but you
>> can try it...though I'm kind of interested now so I might see
>> myself.  My benchmarks would be out of whack with yours though
>> because of CPU and storage backend differences. :)
>
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