[Dovecot] linux 2.4 vs 2.6 kernel

[Todd Burroughs]

We use Reiserfs 3 on over a thousand servers and I've only lost one.
That one was caused by us unplugging it on purpose to test the filesystem.
It made it through a couple tests, then got messed up and I managed
to get it partially back.  We tried ext3 (this is ~3 years ago though)
and found it not very stable.

I can't comment on speed with a large number of files, as we use NFS
for data storage, but I find that Reiser's pretty stable.  Mostly we're
using 2.4 kernels.

Todd


On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Peter Hessler wrote:

> Why would you even consider a filesystem that corrupts files randomly?
> Not trolling, its a serious question.
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:30 +0200
> Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner at post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> : Reiser is fast and saves space, but can cause havoc when the system
> : crashes. The way Reiser works can cause a crash to corrupt files
> : which where not even opened at the time the system went down.
> :
> : I've lost 3 reiser partitions during the years IIRC and in these
> : cases reiserfsck never helped but rather nailed the coffin, so to
> : speak...
>