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On Saturday 10 May 2014 10:33:19 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Note that as I said in my original |
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> email, "dirvish" really hammers a file system and only reiserfs seems to |
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> withstand it though I have gotten errors with it in the past. Ive tried |
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> ext4 (takes only a couple of backup sessions and its unrecoverable, |
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> btrfs an occasional error with two complete losses of the |
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> partition/filesystem since Christmas and reiserfs gets rare errors. |
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I moved away from reisefs to ext4 because I was getting some random lockups |
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when I/O was high. While on reiserfs I also had a couple of corrupt mysql |
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files and all around poor performance. Now, this was on a machine with a |
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deficient PSU (I replaced a couple of capacitors since then and it is now |
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working properly) so I don't want to blame the filesystem because of this |
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hardware problem. In any case, under these impaired conditions ext4 was a |
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much better performing filesystem than reiserfs. No lock ups, significantly |
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faster and no corruption was observed in normal operation - I didn't try to |
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hammer it. |
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So I read your paragraph above with surprise, because in my experience the |
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opposite was true. At the time I thought that reiserfs was perhaps suffering |
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from bitrot, because these symptoms had gotten worse over time. This is on an |
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installation running since 2005. Not sure what to conclude from these |
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anecdotal observations ... :-/ |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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