[arch-general] partition sizes and filesystems (Re: Install Arch in stages?)

[Heiko Baums]

Am Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:03:03 -0600
schrieb Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu>:

> Reiser 3.6 is considered feature-complete I think, so only bugfixes
> are released. It was the default on SuSE until SLES 10 and is still
> maintained.

ReiserFS 3.6 is fast on a new system, but gets extremely slow after a
few years. That was at least my experience and the reason for switching
to ext3 which is after a few years now still as fast as at the
beginning.

> Cool :) I used LUKS but then figured it's not worth it. Because only
> several important file really need encryption, I ended up with plain
> gpg.

With GnuPG you have to explicitly decrypt the single files every time
you want to access the file. With LUKS this happens transparently, and
you can encrypt the whole system so that nobody can see what's on your
harddisk except for the kernel, the initrd and the bootloader of
course. So there are use cases for both LUKS and GnuPG depending on
your needs or wishes.

Heiko