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CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote at 02:16 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 2025-05-02 20:13, Borax Man wrote:
>> On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>>>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>>>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>>>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>>>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>>>>
>>>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>>>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>>>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>>>> his murderous impulses.
>>>
>>> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was
>>> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the
>>> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at
>>> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>>>
>> 
>> It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
>> also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
>> NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
>> reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
>> if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.
>
> Well, I can only hope that btrfs is an excellent filesystem for the long 
> term because that's what I chose. Just to be safe, I set it up for 
> snapshots, but I can't imagine it corrupting my data the way that 
> Windows managed to.


Keeping off-computer backups is also not a bad idea.
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