[CentOS] Re: ReiserFS

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Jan 28 16:42:48 UTC 2008


on 1/28/2008 6:57 AM Chris Mauritz spake the following:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008, centos at 911networks.com wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is their any gotcha when using ResiserFs as a file system?
>> We used reiserfs for a while on SuSE systems thinking that it
>> would be OK because it was the default.  Unfortunately I have had
>> several occassions where we had massive data loss with reiserfs
>> so haven't used for several years.
>>
>> We moved to ext3 on the ``/'' file system with xfs on other file
>> systems on SuSE with no problems.  The ext3 systems seem to be
>> bullet proof, and xfs doesn't require fsck in most cases.
>>
>> We have used ext3 on all the CentOS systems as it doesn't support
>> xfs in the default configuration.
> 
> I also played around with Reiser for a while.  If you want a "fire and
> forget" solution, it isn't for you.  As several others have mentioned, you
> need to jump through a lot of extra hoops to keep it operating and the
> data loss can be catestrophic if it fails.  All that hassle for a bit of
> extra disk performance isn't really worth it.  EXT3 is plenty fast enough
> for me.
> 
> On the flipside, perhaps if you call Hans and agree to cover his legal
> bills you can get a good lifetime support contract.  :)
> 
> Cheers,
Last I heard, he was being investigated for a possible "lifetime commitment".
But that was a while ago.


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