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> I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is |
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> still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file |
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> system. |
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> Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has brought |
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> home to me that YMMV really does apply to filesystems. Your usage, data |
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> profile, power/hardware stability are all variables and any two peoples |
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> experience almost assuredly wont be the same. |
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In this discussion multiple people have defended reiserfs as a safe |
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filesystem. This is novel to me. Reiserfs is always bashed as being an |
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unsafe filesystem, developed with only speed in mind; a filesystem to |
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be used only by childish ricers or in specific situations where |
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filesystem performance is critical. For example, once I tried |
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genkernel (but did not like it and decide to go on with manual kernel |
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maintainance) and this message was in an ewarn |
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ewarn "This package is known to not work with reiser4. If you |
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are running" |
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ewarn "reiser4 and have a problem, do not file a bug. We know it does not" |
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ewarn "work and we don't plan on fixing it since reiser4 is the one that is" |
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ewarn "broken in this regard. Try using a sane filesystem like ext3 or" |
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ewarn "even reiser3." |
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They explicitly claim reiser4 is broken and insane, and their wording |
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implicitly suggests that ext3 is better than reiser3. |
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But in this discussion people are saying reiserfs is in fact safer than ext3. |
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I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I |
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don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think |
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that either |
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A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser |
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and Linux developers caused people to dislike reiserfs for |
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non-technical reasons. |
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or |
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B) reiserfs is a bad filesystem but for some reason a lot of reiserfs |
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fans appeared in this thread |
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Note: don't talk about the unfortunate horrible story of Hans' family, |
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the details of which we don't know. People were bashing reiserfs (both |
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versions 3 and 4) well before that. |
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