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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |