Within the space of about 10 minutes this article appeared here,
On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:48 PM, secmgr wrote:
Actually it's a very valid choice. At this time, Linux offers
ext3, XFS (from SGI), JFS (from IBM) and RieserFS as journaled file
systems (as in no fscking fsck). JFS, XFS and RieserFS offer very
good performance with big directories (like Maildir style mailboxes
could create) and recover from unexpected outages quickly (journal
replay to last checkpoint is typically seconds) and robustly. In
fact, if I were to deploy a large Maildir system, where users could
have thousands of files per directory, I would definitly be looking
at JFS, XFS or Rieser. Linux also has a WORKING logical volume
manager, and a WORKING s/w raid5 whose performance is close to all
but the most high end RAID controllers. But I digress.
...and this one on a NetBSD list:
Subject: Re: google's summer of code makefs extension
To: None <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Christos Zoulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06/09/2005 00:18:00
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:01:55AM -0500, Greg Naughton wrote:
>> Reiserfs would be fun.
>
> Will you? ;) Even that simpler (I suppose, it's simpler...)
3.5.23...
Please don't. If you really want, first fix reiserfs on linux so that:
1. It has an fsck that works instead of spending 18 hours or an 1T
filesystem
only to proclaim in the end that it cannot be fixed.
2. Does not turn data into trash after a few weeks of heavy
filesystem use.
christos
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I haven't used anything but ext2/3 on Linux, so I don't have any axes
to grind one way or the other, but there definitely seems to exist
some very different perspectives on how stable and robust ReiserFS
is. :-)
--
-Chuck
PS: I'm not interested in spreading platform-specific FUD, but these
two messages arriving in my inbox almost at once do make quite a
contrast.
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