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@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...