Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

Nicholas Petreley (nicholas@petreley.com)
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:19:55 -0700


My Linux boxes are 99% Reiserfs (I work with 2 small ext2
partitions - the rest are Reiserfs partitions). Some things
I have noticed:

The good (2.2 kernels):

* No problems at all using Reiserfs 3.5.x on 2.2 kernels
* Speed improvements using Reiserfs and squid
* No NFS problems
* Rollback of logs is extremely fast vs. fsck

The bad (2.2 kernels)

* Nothing I can think of

The bad (2.4.x kernels):

* Some corruption problems with various 2.4.x kernels, but
people are reporting ext2 problems, too, so this is
probably due at least in part to IDE/PCI chipset issues
* Some corruption problems if an application
uses an nfs-mounted reiserfs partition during
an unexpected shutdown of the nfs server

The good (2.4.x kernels)

* Reisefsck --rebuild-tree works fine for me
when I get corruption problems

I haven't used Windows to do any work in years. Just
games.

-Nick

* Harald Dunkel (harri@synopsys.COM) [010403 05:17]:
> Hi folks,
>
> If I get the DVD stuff working, then I won't need NT anymore, i.e.
> I will have an empty disk.
>
> What is your impression about ReiserFS? Does it work? Is it stable
> enough for my daily work, or is it something to try out and watch
> carefully? Do you use ReiserFS for your boot partition?
>
> Or should I try ext3 instead?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Harri
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