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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080128/1b05348a/attachment-0005.sig>