[Andreas Schuldei] > what are our criteria? reliability is certainly high up on the list, > but speed and low cpu usage are important, too.
I realize I was not very clear on this in my last reply. I do not consider speed and cpu usage very important when it comes to file systems. The most important part is making sure the saved date stay on the disk. So reliability is an absolute requirement. I do not care how fast one can save the files, if I can't be sure to retrieve them back from the disk. Next comes flexibility in administration and distribution over the net, as these are important to be able to use the filesystem without much work. Last, if all the previous factors are well handled, come performance. And to tell you the truth, I do not trust reiserfs. It will need to have several years of real world documented experience on flaky hardware before I trust it to not croak on me when I desperately need to fetch some files from a disk. Performance might be an important factor if the filesystem in question was a cache of some kind, where the real data was stored elsewhere, or could be regenerated when needed. If the filesystem was to store the only copy of my data, it would not matter much to me how fast it was.
