I have a machine using ReiserFS on almost every release of linux kernel between 2.4.5 and 2.4.13 and never had a problem.
However, I'm using ext3 on 2.4.16 on my laptop now. ilia. On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 16:56, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, Bret Waldow wrote: > > Alexander Clouter wrote: > > > >> As for the XFS.....GOOD MAN :) None of that 'girly-man' reiserfs > >> crud :) > >> I'm running it too and everything is just peachy :) > > > > Ok, I'll bite. What's bad about reiser, or what's good about xfs? > > > > Seriously, if there's something serious there - inquiring minds and > > all that... > > Well, personally I use ext3, and I wouldn't let ReiserFS near anything > that I cared about. Heck, I even look suspiciously at the sources... ;) > > Seriously, though, I really wouldn't advise ReiserFS to anyone, at least > not for a year or two. The reasons are: > > 1) static fsck tool /very/ poor[1] > 2) bi-monthly "ReiserFS ate my filesystem" posts on linux-kernel > 3) semi-regular "ReiserFS needs this patch to not die in situation X" > posts on same. > 4) "Just run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree to make sure it keeps working..." > 5) Performances falls on the floor one the FS is > 90% full, on average. > 6) Only journals meta-data. > > It's got some *great* ideas in it, and it's really well supported by the > people who are developing it. I have a great deal of respect for them, > don't get me wrong. > > I just think that they made a mistake building fsck second and I > (personally, and I am paranoid) like journaled data. > > > The stability of it has never been sufficient for me. It seems to be an > endless treadmill of fix after fix after fix, each removing an > occasional data corruption bug. > > Heck, tail packing spend over a year where they had corruption of files > regularly. It /looks/ stable now, a year later, because no one has > reported a bug in the area for a few months -- but do you believe that? > > Daniel > > Footnotes: > [1] Every single time I looked at it. I have not done so for, like, > three months. If it's great now, someone correct me, please. :) > > -- > What is art but a way of seeing? > -- Thomas Berger > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
