On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:22:40PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I > > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may > > not be able to fix the damage and loses data. > > I've been using resierfs for some time (including on a flaky laptop) > and I've never seen that problem come up. > As for the reliability of reiserfs: haven't had any problems with > it myself. It's hard for me to see how you can sort out > anecdotal evidence on issues like this: file system failures are > rare enough that no one person's experience is worth all that > much (unless you've been administering clusters of hundreds of > machines with a mixture of different file systems...).
For me, its not anecdotal. I switched to ReiserFS from ext3 when I was having troubles with ext2/3 fsck messing up. It turned out later to be a bug that was fixed. In the mean time, ReiserFS also messed up (as in lost important data in-between daily backups). I then switched to JFS and had absolutely no problems. I switched back to ext3 based on the advise of the JFS utils maintainer and, second-hand, IBM. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
