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On Wednesday 24 April 2002 03:46 pm, Miguel S. Filipe wrote: |
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> I never understood why gentoo says this about reiserfs. |
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> reiserfs is actively mantained in the kernel tree, it's allways getting |
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> updated and bugs are fixed every release, this for me is a signal that |
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> it's being very tested, and the fact that it's in the main kernel tree |
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> for some time, and I never saw in kerneltrap.com, or in any other web |
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> page related to the kernel, or the kernel mailing list. |
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I can't speak for gentoo, but I have personally witnessed data loss with |
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reiserfs on a number of occasions ... a friend of mine had the dubious |
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privelege of having that experience just a couple of weeks ago. |
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So while I cannot offer any insight into why the gentoo developers may have |
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warned people away from reiser, I can tell you from personal experience that |
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I'm glad they did, and only wish other distros had done the same. |
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As a user of XFS I too am frustrated at the occasional hiccup in support |
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(which will undoubtably change once it is in the 2.5.x kernel), although even |
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so I have never experienced a single bit of data loss ... just the annoying |
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himem bug during install which I work around by installing onto an ext2 |
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partition and then copying over to a new xfs partition after I've booted a |
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kernel with himem not compiled in. |
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One can add performance patches by hand to an XFS capable kernel, or make a |
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custom ebuild to do so. I've had good luck with the preemtable patch as well |
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as the low latency patch (though I haven't gotten around to trying either |
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against the current 2.4.19-r1 (xfs-sources) kernel yet). |
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Jean. |
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