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On Tuesday 14 May 2002 17:39, Jean-Michel Smith wrote: |
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> Reiserfs is NOT ready for production use, and the gentoo FAQ is both wise |
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> and friendly for pointing that out and guiding people away from that |
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> particular folly. |
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If you have such experiences it's ok to say so _but_ you have to say why you |
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don't recommend reiserfs (or give a pointer to some place where your thesis |
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is backed). I've not had any bad experience with ext2 on my workstation at |
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home so I'd say it's ok but at work on the latop after one crash I had to do |
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a fsck'ing long fsck which then aborted and let me run the whole damn thing |
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again manually. So after that I'd say ext2 sucks. But that may not be |
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apparent to someone else who has only had good exp like I had at home. So he |
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won't believe me if all I say is "ext2 sucks dont use it it's unstable" |
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> There are plenty of other, much safer filesystems to use, including XFS (if |
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> you don't need bleeding edge experimental features, e.g. can be happy with |
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> stock 2.4.18 kernel + xfs patches), JFS, ext3, ext2 (no journalling), and |
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> so forth. |
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There are problems with those too. As said earlier (and Mark mentions it too) |
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ext2 sucks :) I have no personal experience with JFS but the german computer |
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magazine c't tested reiser, ext3, XFS and JFS lately and they had very |
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serious stability problems with JFS. So it's basically ext3 against XFS. One |
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is a very intrusive patch and the other is ext2 + journaling which is fine if |
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you only need a journaling fs and don't care about other deficiencies of |
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ext2. |
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> That having been said, there is a plethora of hard evidence as well as |
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> anectdotal experiences to learn from, and to indicate that reiser really |
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> isn't a safe choice to be making. This is reflected in the gentoo |
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> installation documentation, IMHO exactly as it should be. |
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As said earlier, it's ok to tell the people that reiser is not stable in your |
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opinion, but tell them _why_! That's my whole point, nothing about being |
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emotionally attached to reiser (tho I use it and am happy, but I also use XFS |
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and am happy) |
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Alex |
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-- |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety |
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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