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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Large disks in Opensuse 11
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2009-05-13 15:03:15
Message-ID: alpine.LSU.2.00.0905131657520.15459 () nimrodel ! valinor
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On Wednesday, 2009-05-13 at 13:24 +0200, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:

> Feel free to comment, but before I swap the drives in order to find out,
> I would like to receive suggestions as to what file system I should
> choose. I originally thought to use FAT, but some of you advised against
> it in favor of Ext3. Personally I would like ReiserFS, but that is more
> difficult to read/write from/to from a Windows machine. Also, I have a
> MacBook Pro which to my knowledge can read neither ReiserFS nor Ext3.
> That would make FAT the preferred choice unless there are weighty
> reasons to go with something else.

Unfortunately, reiserfs on external disk via USB on 11.0 is faulty: the 
filesystem can get very much corrupted, needing a rebuild that takes 
hours. I haven't lost data yet, but it is a real pain in the backside. On 
10.3 or 11.1 it works fine. There is a bugzilla, but no plans to correct 
it in 11.0, as it works in 11.1. Not everybody is affected, though.

Plus, they have already hinted that they want to drop reiserfs support in 
the future...


What I don't like of ext3 for external media is that it can take ages to 
fsck.

- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.

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