Re: fsfs and Linux filesystems

[Jari Aalto <ja...@cante.net>]

Kalin KOZHUHAROV <ka...@thinrope.net> writes:
| >> Therefore this article about FS suggests that ReiserFS should be the..
|
| > now regarding data safety: you should avoid ReiserFS IMHO under all
| > circumstances for truely important data on truely important servers.
| > I had several incidents with it in the past; it is disintegrating
| > itself rather quickly under not optimal circumstances.
>
> To give my $0.02, I'd say I have never had any problems with 
> reiserfs-3.6 (the stable one in 2.6.x kernels) for 2 years or so (since 
> 2.6.0) on 20+ machines

To each of their own. I experienced constant Kernel panics with
ReiserFS 3.6, which was using LVM underneath with both 2.4+ and 2.6
kernels for about a year. The machines went hi-wire regularly after
month or two until I finally had the time to reinstall and change the
FS to reliable ext3.

I didn't loose any data though, but the panics were annoying, when not
even pulling the power cable dind't reset the machines. I have to
unassemble batteries.

These were laptops servers - think about built-in UPS support :-).

Jari



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Re: fsfs and Linux filesystems

[Oliver Pajonk <ol...@gmail.com>]

2005/9/2, Jari Aalto <ja...@cante.net>:

> To each of their own. I experienced constant Kernel panics with
> ReiserFS 3.6, which was using LVM underneath with both 2.4+ and 2.6
> kernels for about a year. The machines went hi-wire regularly after
> month or two until I finally had the time to reinstall and change the
> FS to reliable ext3.


I can only second this: here it was even worse, I more than once found a 
dead reiserfs 3.x on one of my hdds. No chances to revive it, no possibility 
to find out why the $'%& it chrashed and all data was lost. Now I am using 
xfs and no problems so far, even on virtual linux disks inside a co-linux on 
windows 2003. I also never had problems with ext3, but xfs can be easily 
extended to a new partition size which I use relatively often.

-- 
Oliver Pajonk