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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:21:02AM -0500, Jean-Michel Smith wrote: |
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>First, I've had resier lose data on systems that were running fine, i.e. were |
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>NOT shut down improperly, or suffered a kernel hang, or any other sort of |
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>disruption that one could reasonably expect would lead to filesystem |
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>corruption. |
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I've seen these types of corruptions as well. It's as if the writes aren't |
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synced to disk in a timely manner and therefor just don't take place. The |
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journaling in reiser is supposed to prevent this. I've also had low memory |
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issues with reiser, when doing large amounts of small block IO, it'll just |
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randomly corrupt pieces of data. I didn't test too much to ascertain the |
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cause of the effect, suffice it to say that it was enough to make me stay |
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away from it. |
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>Reiser comes nowhere near being as safe or stable as these alternatives (with |
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>the possible exception of ext3 which I need to do more testing with). |
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Stephen Tweedie will freely admit that ext2 is kinda haphazzard in the way |
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it does certain things but relies HEAVILY on a very good fsck. Now |
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reiserfsck on the otherhand (and I can't back this up either) appears to |
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just through out inconsistent inodes rather than trying to repair them. |
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All just heresy of course, i have absolutely 0 data to back any of this up, |
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but I for one wouldn't use reiser in production. |
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Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ |
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