ReiserFS or EXT3, which do YOU prefer?

[bsharp]

ext3 cause it's the default and I've never had any probs with it....the reverse would be true for me if reiserfs was default.

[stimpack]

ReiserFS simply because I hate ext3 fsck'ing every 30 boots or whatever.

Both are well proven and any personal experience is statistically irrelevant.

[damis648]

ReiserFS simply because I hate ext3 fsck'ing every 30 boots or whatever.

Both are well proven and any personal experience is statistically irrelevant.

This can be disabled with an override, and is just a check to help keep you safe from lost or corrupted data. I myself have never had any problems with Ext3... I only used ReiserFS once, not that my experience was bad, I just didn't care for it.

[Canis familiaris]

This really should have been a multiple choice poll.

I use both.

My / is ReiserFS
My /home is ext3

[billgoldberg]

I'm using reiserfs on my desktop, and ext3 on my laptop.

The only change I notice is that the reiserfs pc doesn't ask to check the disk for errors every 30 or so boots.

So I prefer reiserfs.

[billgoldberg]

This really should have been a multiple choice poll.

I use both.

My / is ReiserFS
My /home is ext3

The question isn't what do you use, but what do you prefer.

[Canis familiaris]

The question isn't what do you use, but what do you prefer.

The poll question asks what do you use?

[smartboyathome]

I don't prefer one over the other, one is just better in some situations than the other. I use ReiserFS for / and Ext3 for /home, due to ReiserFS's superior handling of small files and Ext3's stable track record. What I hate about Ext3, though, is that it takes very long just to format a partition.

[Peyton]

ReiserFS simply because I hate ext3 fsck'ing every 30 boots or whatever.

Both are well proven and any personal experience is statistically irrelevant.

As damis648 noted, you can change that:

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/...eck-at-bootup/

[david_lynch]

I've been using reiser everywhere for the past 4 years or so. It's the default filesystem on suse linux enterprise, which we use in the datacenter at a fortune 100 company.

I use reiser on my own desktops and laptops, and when I build servers for consulting clients, they are reiserfs.

Why? performance. I just don't want the performance hit that ext3 imposes, but I do want a journalling filesystem, and I want something mainstream.

In every performance comparison I've done, reiser beats the hell out of ext3. xfs also performs well, but it is apparently enough out of the mainstream that it has issues e.g. grub has problems booting from an xfs disk. jfs has some virtues, but speed is not one of them.

Eventually reiserfs in our environment will be superceded, since reiser4 looks to be dead in the water, due to various factors. Maybe the next killer linux fs will be ext4, or it could be btrfs, a filesystem sponsored by oracle and developed by Chris Mason, and which looks quite promising.