Computing.Net - reiser vs ext3

Computing.Net - reiser vs ext3: " There are lots of comparisons out on the net, try googling for: resier ext3 (http://www.google.com/search?q=reiser ext3&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

Generally reiser is said to handle lots of small files faster.

As reiser (as well as ext3) is a relatively new file system, it was never enabled by default in the kernel config although just about all GNU/Linux systems could support ext2...hence it being chosen by default.

ext3 is basically ext2 with a journal. You can convert from ext2 to ext3 with:
# tune2fs -j /dev/hda1
and convert back:
# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1

If you are planning to dual boot with windoze, you may want to choose ext3 as you will still be able to read it under windoze with explore2fs (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm)

To keep things simple I would suggest just two partitions; one for swap approximately the same size asx the amount of RAM and the rest for the root filesystem.

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