[Cialug] Linux Tweaks and Hacks

[Renegade Muskrat]

How easy is it to manually repair reiser? Are there many disaster 
recovery utilities? For now i've been sticking with ext3 simply because 
it is so similar to ext2. And with ext2, in certain situations i've had 
to edit the file system with a hex editor. I've had to do this in rare 
situations such as when *someone* <ahem> accidentally deleted an entire 
web site for which there was no backup. Editing the file system with a 
hex editor isn't fun, but there are tutorials written for ext2 which 
are quite helpful and can walk one through the process of restoring 
directories and then files. Do reiser and other systems work similarly 
enough that the same techniques for disaster recover could work? 
Perhaps it wouldn't be as big a deal for me today; now my machines both 
at home and at work are backed up to a file server on a daily basis.

 >At 10:50 AM 11/11/2004 -0600, you wrote:
 >
 >As for file system benchmarks a quick search on Google brings up
 >http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html.  Of course, this is from the
 >maker of ReiserFS so take it with a bit of salt.  The full Google 
return
 >can be found
 >http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&q=file+system+benchmarks&btnG=Goog
 >le+Search
 >
 >Personally I use reiserfs for all my systems.
 >
 >Here is another set of benchmarks which put JFS on top with Reiserfs
 >second. http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html
 >
 >Regardless, either is better than the old ext3.
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