Re: [gentoo-dev] reiserfs

[Bill Kenworthy]

Mandrake also push reiserfs and the bad experiances seem to have been
few and far between (in the early days it was /boot install issues and
unfamiliarity with a new FS).  Personally, in approx two years I have
had one minor corruption of one directory (improper shutdown when power
went in an electrical storm), but have lost two WHOLE ext2 systems in
that time, besides odd data files when power is unexpectedly lost.

The question came up on a local lug as well, with reiserfs and ext3
seeming to be the top choices, and from memory xfs seemed to be bagged
(cant remember why - something to do with the linux implementation?).

Reiserfs did get some bad press in the early days, and I think that may
be a hangover that effects peoples thinking.  I think this is a case of
YMMV, and as far as I am concerned, gentoo is the odd one out by not
reccomending reiserfs, and because there seems to be little
documentation to back it up its point of view, but a fair bit of
experiance saying reiserfs is reasonably stable.  There is also the
possibility that the problem is gentoo's implementation of reiser (that
is, other distro's patch it for some known problems).

Note that I dont regard any FS as "totally stable", but from experiance
and reccomendations, reiserfs and ext3 seem to near the top,
particularly if you NEED the protection journalling offers.  Its only
when I joined this list that I have come across people reccomending xfs.

BillK

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 01:49, Mark Bainter wrote:
> Alexander Gretencord [arutha@×××.de] wrote:
> > As said earlier, it's ok to tell the people that reiser is not stable in your
> > opinion, but tell them _why_! That's my whole point, nothing about being
> > emotionally attached to reiser (tho I use it and am happy, but I also use XFS
> > and am happy)