[KLUG Members] Defrag'ing ext3 filesystems?

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:03:58 -0500 (EST)


>>>to be defragmented are full of crap!
>>*I* didn't say that.  I'm of the opinion that Linux has outgrown ext2/3
>>and we need to leave the silly toy behind.
>OK, then what I would like to see is a comparison/discussion of the 
>various file systems available in a Mandrake distrobution.
>What file systems are superior to ext2/3 and why do you think so?

Reiserfs is good for some niche applications,  the primary alternative to 
mainstream use if XFS,  although I here JFS works quite well these days.  
XFS and JFS feature-for-feature are pretty darn close.

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