Do you use antivirus for Linux?

Do you have an antivirus app installed on your Linux distro?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • No

    Votes: 44 88.0%
  • Total voters
    50
koffiejunkie said:
Apologies for making assumptions. mkreiserfs took care of my windows partition several years ago.
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No worries. I like ext3. Haven't tried the others, but this one is more than just awesome for me. Actually performs a lot better than ntfs (wait till the M$ wizards hears this, hee hee)
 
froot said:
No worries. I like ext3. Haven't tried the others, but this one is more than just awesome for me. Actually performs a lot better than ntfs (wait till the M$ wizards hears this, hee hee)
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That's a bit of a generalisation there. ext3 is slower than just about everything under some circumstances. Like lots of really small files. MySQL also recommends using any Linux filesystem except ext3.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That's a bit of a generalisation there. ext3 is slower than just about everything under some circumstances. Like lots of really small files. MySQL also recommends using any Linux filesystem except ext3.
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Oh ok. Will try something else next time I format then. Been using mysql for a while now and it seems to run pretty fast for me (and yes, I do have mammoth databases). So thanks for the heads-up.
 
froot said:
Oh ok. Will try something else next time I format then. Been using mysql for a while now and it seems to run pretty fast for me (and yes, I do have mammoth databases). So thanks for the heads-up.
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I'm still trying to find more information on this. I was told this on two separate occasions, once when I did my RHCE and we were discussing filesystems, and once when I did my CMDBA. But I haven't found much documentation on the reasons.

I like reiserfs because (after years of supporting clients in areas that get powercut and powersurged almost daily, like Sandton and Honeydew) I just find it to be better when you actually need to do disaster recovery. But with the author in jail and no one maintaining the code, I guess it won't be with us for much longer.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I'm still trying to find more information on this. I was told this on two separate occasions, once when I did my RHCE and we were discussing filesystems, and once when I did my CMDBA. But I haven't found much documentation on the reasons.

I like reiserfs because (after years of supporting clients in areas that get powercut and powersurged almost daily, like Sandton and Honeydew) I just find it to be better when you actually need to do disaster recovery. But with the author in jail and no one maintaining the code, I guess it won't be with us for much longer.
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Yeah, but wait, that actually strengthens the case for me using ext3- Mr Reiser's wife was found to be using ext3! Really funny and sad at the same time but anyways. I will definitely be taking your suggestions into consideration.
 
I'm not saying reiserfs is going away soon. Just that it's not actively maintained. I should rather have said 'developed' - it is part of the kernel and thus it is maintained, it' just not changing. I suspect then the 2.6 kernel reaches the end of the line there might be discussions as to weather reiserfs should be retained, but I suspect there will be enough demand for it that it will be kept. And how knows, Hans Reiser might be out of jail by then.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I'm not saying reiserfs is going away soon. Just that it's not actively maintained. I should rather have said 'developed' - it is part of the kernel and thus it is maintained, it' just not changing. I suspect then the 2.6 kernel reaches the end of the line there might be discussions as to weather reiserfs should be retained, but I suspect there will be enough demand for it that it will be kept. And how knows, Hans Reiser might be out of jail by then.
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Let's hope he is out of jail by then. The Linux community can't afford any setbacks in the "taking over the world" plan. No worries about the communication breakdown there.
 
I use antivir to scan my Windows, er, backups and to fix lusers infected USB flash drives.
 
In my earlier days when I was replicating my XP system on Linux I tried to run them. I got frustrated there were no memory resident type solutions until I learnt I just didn't need one.
 
fskmh said:
I use antivir to scan my Windows, er, backups and to fix lusers infected USB flash drives.
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How very kind of you. I just copy whatever nasty is on their flash drive to my 'zoo' folder, and copy a few of my specimens back - share and share alike :D
 
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