Mick wrote: > On Friday, 6 October 2017 19:12:00 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I had a large partition with reiserfs. >> Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. >> >> Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained a huge >> (millions) amount of files, but having an fsck become impossible with 16GB >> memory available was rather annoying. >> >> -- >> Joost > It should also be noted that reiserfs may be getting some bitrot over the > years. I haven't used it for a while now, but when I converted an old PC > from > reiserfs to ext4 it acquired a new lease of life in terms of performance. > For > every day personal use I tend to prefer it, although I also use btrfs on a > trial basis.
Same here. When I built my current rig several years ago, I switched to ext4 from reiserfs myself. At the time, there was very little development and its future was uncertain since the guy that came up with it was shall we say, no longer available. I haven't looked into it but is it even maintained like it should be or just sitting out there with the occasional patch up by whoever has a few minutes? If I were building a new rig today, I don't think I'd even consider reiserfs. Dale :-) :-)
