From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: Which ist the best file system for 245 MB? Date: 8 May 1993 00:21:54 GMT
ewtroan@ewt.raleigh.ibm.com (Erik Troan) writes:
>ext2 The [not so] clear winner. Stable and fast. It also has room
> for expansion w/o reformatting. Should supprot compression,
> acls, and undeletion eventually.
>
>xia The only competition ext2 faces. Fast and clean. I've seen
> very few bug reports on it. The only negative it has is
> little [if any] room for later additions without introducing
> incompatibilities w/ older versions. Still a good choice
> though.
Can someone comment on the CONCEPTUAL differences? I mean, what features
are being offered? WHY are there different ones here?
Of course I can decide for myself which fs best suits my needs, but I can't
do that in a vacuum of information.
>iso9660 Would gain some definite nifty points. I've never seen a
> mkiso9660fs though. Let me know if you can get it to work
> though :-) [for those who don't know, this is a R/O fs for
> CD-Rom]
Gee, I could start a flame war on this one all by itself without even
comparing it to any others. But it's not worth it.
mknod /dev/flames c 1 3
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