RaghuNath L wrote:
>
> Raiserfs is very heavy like fat file system and only benifit is it does
> not take time after power off with out propershutdown .
>
> it not recomended at production environment.
I will have to disagree on this one...
ReiserFS is a _journaling_ file system (and has other interesting
benefits that are of use mainly to developers, not so much
users/administrators).
Noting that it "does not take time after power off without
propershutdown" is truley an understatement. Since it is a journaling
filesystem, it keeps a journal of file system changes before actually
making them. What this means is if it is not cleanly unmounted, you are
*far, far* less likely to experience file corruption. And true, because
of the journal, it does mount very quickly after an unsafe shutdown
which is of HUGE benefit if you have a server with a couple hundred
gigabytes or even a couple terrabytes of data. Running e2fsck on such
large disks could take hours.
ReiserFS is also noted as quite stable at this point and worthy of
production servers. Some distributions (SuSE comes to mind) are now
supporting it even during installation.
There are other offerings presently, including a path which adds
journaling to ext2fs, as well as IBM's JFS. I'm not aware of their
statuses.
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-Fred Whipple
iMagine Internet Services
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