[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Wed Oct 4 02:58:27 UTC 2006
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

Nathan Grennan wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 05:02, Feizhou wrote:
>>  
>>> Suse is behind reiser v3.
>>>     
>>
>> Not any more.  See 
>> http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/ 
>> for details.  SuSE is going to ext3 as its default filesystem with 
>> 10.2, looks like.
>>   
> I was just about to post this. It is very informative of why reiserfs is 
> a bad idea.

Then there is their dependence on properly working hardware. Recently 
they have been talking about making reisefs more robust to hardware 
faults. So if your disk starts acting up, you might lose data or even 
your whole filesystem...