[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.1 out in Beta

[Daniel T. Chen]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> > I'm a Debian user, but for ResNet "rush" I needed a laptop capable of
> > running the Remedy problem tracking client, so just this once I bypassed
> > Deb and chose the Mandrake 8.1 beta, Raklet. The setup is slick and works
> > quite well, offering you partioning choices between jfs, ext3, and
> > reiserfs journaling filesystems 
> 
> über-cooooooooooooooool

I neglected to mention it also offers the choice of XFS. Oops. =)

> > (I chose reiserfs for the thinkpad 600x). 
> 
> Any reason behind it? I would like to know pros and cons (no religious 
> instances) on those journaling filesystems.

I've tracked ReiserFS development for a while now, and I like the
[virtually] immediate response I get from Chris Mason, one of the main
architects working on it at SuSE, if I have problems.

I'm using weird combinations of ext2, ext3, and ReiserFS on my machines,
and the latter two are quite solid. ReiserFS seems a tad more responsive
at times (i.e. `tar xjf linux-2.4.7.tar.bz2' only takes a few seconds on a
ReiserFS partition versus ~30 on an ext3). I like ext3's ability to be
mounted as a "normal" ext2 partition if umounted cleanly, though. :)

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