Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 03:28 schrieb Curtis Maloney:
People I know who've used Reiser say it's wonderfuly fast, but if it corrupts, well... save your time, and go straight to restoring your backups.
That's exactly my experience. I used ReiserFS 2 and 3 for many years and plan to switch some partitions currently running ext3 back to ReiserFS in the near future, but I'd advise anyone using it to have complete and current working backups.
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...
The reason I'm currently using ext3 is solely that my old computer became a bit unstable lately due to hardware flaws which made me abandon reiser 3 rather quickly ;) , and I wanted to test the new computer I had bought to make sure it will run stable enough to drive reiser partitions. It has passed this test in my eyes and I'll give reiser 3 another shot.
My old Am486 internet router and mail server flawlessly runs a reiser 3 partition since a few years without recreating the filesystem and serves IMAP maildir folders and news via leafnode from that partition. But that's no missin critical system compared to what you guys are doing. ;)
Greetings,
Gunter
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