Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 24 Apr 2013 12:17:26 Philip Webb wrote:
> 130424 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:37:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> If it's so easy, please point me to a couple (smile).
> >
> > http://bit.ly/11CZWFM
>
> Thanks for the pretty video (grin).
>
> The 1st page of the Google list gives only  2  threads since 2006
> & both were hardware problems, ie failing disks, one very old.
>
> So I continue to believe that Reiser 3 is remarkably reliable,
> at least if you don't try running it virtually on itself
> or blame hardware problems on the software.

I'm sure I have posted about my experience with reiserfs a few years back in 
this list.  Incompatible memory modules on a buggy MoBo were causing a *daily* 
hard crash because of which I had to hard reboot during sync'ing portage.  
Some days I had to pull the plug twice.  Despite these daily crashes caused by 
the memory problem, for a year and a half I had no fs corruption to speak of 
(only once or twice I ended up with one or two zero size files).  Eventually, 
I scrapped the PC because the MoBo went to heaven.

Reiser4 on the other hand had caused me no end of trouble on a laptop, 
especially as newer kernels were becoming increasing incompatible with it.

I've been running ext4 for the last 3-4 years and I have not thought of trying 
anything else for my basic partitioning scheme.
-- 
Regards,
Mick