On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 11:24, Daniel Watts wrote:
Reiser has traditionally been a very good choice for maildir because it has infinite inodes, it is very fast on directories with large numbers of files, and it does sub allocation so small files take less space. And it's very fast. Maildir is the area where Reiser does best.
Thanks for this - I have heared many maildir admins laud Reiser. How is it for ongoing stability and reliability?
I've used it from the days when it was the only journaled fs around and an fsck of the stock e2fs drives cause hours of downtime after any crash and have not had any more problems with it than any other fs type. The one thing you might have to be careful about is that there have been different versions and the tools need to match the filesystem version. But you see the same thing with ext3 on Linux. You can't, for example create ext3 filesystems on a current version, restore an old system on them, and have it come up working even though both claim to be ext3.
I suppose with using any non-mainstream technology (ie ext stuff) the admins concern is that it is less well tested for bugs and corruption.
I don't think I'd install the OS on it - just create new filesystems afterwords and move /home and /var onto them.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com