Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 20:46 schrieb Peter Hessler:
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...
Why would you even consider a filesystem that corrupts files randomly? Not trolling, its a serious question.
I had most problems that I had when I still used reiser 2 with Linux 2.2, which has long been obsoleted since reiser 3 was first included in the mainline kernels since 2.4.1 or something.
All problems occured during bad system crashes, situations which really should not happen and which would have caused damages with any file system. So Reiser does not "corrupt files randomly", however in my experience it's true that the damage caused by Reiserfs can exceed the damage done by ext2. So far I had no serious crashes with ext3, so I cannot say anything about this fs.
I just also see reiser's advantages over competing filesystems in some areas. Dovecots speed improved significantly when I switched my (clearly underpowered) mailserver machine from pure ext2 to reiserfs. It had also had a few crashes (mainly power outages) since I set it up and I have not had any problems with the system or it's reiserfs partition which carries the whole /var fs so far.
Greetings,
Gunter
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