on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:02:17PM +1000, Renai LeMay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > Renai LeMay wrote: > > > > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am > > > > > very impressed with it's performance. > > > > > > > > It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) > > > > > > not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you > > > WILL need to fsck it, and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks. > > > > My understanding is that most current reiserfs issues involve 2.4 > > kernels. ReiserFS under 2.2.18+ is pretty stable. 2.4 is not > > recommended unless you're involved in reiserfs development or hate > > yourself (or the "friend" whose system you're configuring ;-)
> I've been running reiserfs with 2.4.3 on a /doc partition which basically > houses my mp3s - so it's constantly being accessed - for a couple of weeks, > with no difficulties. > > That's not exactly heavy useage though. The extremely consistent response I've had from experienced linux users, including kernel hackers (Rusty Russell, while in Canberra recently), is "you're a brave man", which is tempered when I say "2.2". Keep your backups current. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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