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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:24:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T |
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> > Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. |
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> > Ok now I was going to use same reiserfs < no big deal> |
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> I dropped my beloved reiserfs systems of many years in favour of ext4. I |
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> was seeing ext4 (and the much-hyped btrfs) racing forward into the |
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> distance with improvements, useful features and more, while reiser3 |
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> languished. The last straw was when I started getting fs errors for no |
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> good reason. |
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> Let's face it, reiser was Hans. The team he left behind can do maintenance |
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> and bug-fixes, but how many features have you seen added in two years? |
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> > unless I can use reiser4? good idea? <discuss-caveats> |
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> Yuck. |
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> It's not in mainline and will never go in mainline. |
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> It's not in the tree and will never go in the tree. |
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Hmm ... that's not what is mooted here: |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY4OQ |
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> My understanding is it never actually got finished; and with all those |
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> plugins it is just not possible to write a *real* fsck. I would not touch |
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> it myself with your bargepole. |
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It seems that it is still under development, but perhaps not as fast as it |
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were when Hans Reiser was at it full time. |
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I have been using reiser4 for almost a year. It *is* fast! |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=reiser4_benchmarks&num=1 |
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However, Alan's point about a <aheam!> questionable fsck.reiser4 seems correct |
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if my experience is anything to go by: |
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I've had a number of fs corruptions (could be dodgy hardware?) and some of |
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them have not recovered gracefully. :-( |
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Some data (files) were lost a couple of times. I don't know if I should blame |
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the disk, the fs or the fsck.reiser4 command, but it is clear to me that |
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reiser4 is not as reliable as reiserfs was for me for over 6 years. |
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YMMV. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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