[Dovecot] linux 2.4 vs 2.6 kernel

[Gunter Ohrner]

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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