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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:27 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Dale did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>>> It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is |
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>>> maintaining it. If everything else around it stays the same, the fs will |
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>>> obviously continue working just as it always did. But the surrounding |
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>>> system is not stable, it changes rapidly, especially in kernel space, so |
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>>> the odds are stacked against reiser for bitrot. For all these reasons, I |
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>>> regretfully switched my own systems over to ext4 some time ago. Rieser |
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>>> was a good fs whose time has come and gone and I no longer had warm and |
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>>> fuzzies about the future with it. |
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>> I'm not sure I EVER saw a update to reiserfs. I was hoping it was just |
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>> that good. lol |
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>> This is also the reason I was considering moving to ext4 or something. |
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>> How has ext4 been treating you since the switch? I also assume you have |
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>> UPSs as well? |
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> It's still early days, but ext4 has been good here on all machines. I don't |
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> have a UPS (couldn't be bothered really...) so the UPS is the device's |
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> battery. Which means me doing something really stupid and locking the machine |
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> up is the most common reason for hard reboots. It survived every time so far. |
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That sounds good. Your situation is not a theory but real and in |
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practice. We all know what happens to theories. :-( |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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