On 2014-11-06 20:52, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 11/06/2014 01:51 PM, John Andersen wrote:
The truth of the matter is that Suse (even before opensuse) was the point distro for reiserfs maintenance, and some guy left for greener pastures, so no more maintenance was done on it. But because it was virtually bullet proof by that time it hasn't needed much/and maintenance.
+1 A testimony to good design and good fundamental coding.
I have an unsolved bugzilla on it, IIRC.
Every reiserfs failure I've had (both of them in like forever) was hardware induced.
+1 (sadly)
I remember at least one software crash. Two files with different names were considered the same name and clashed, causing filesystem total corruption. Long ago. Caused a bit of uproar at the time.
People say it doesn't scale. I say so what!?
It scales enough for me :-)
It uses only one thread and one core, even when having several large disks and dozens of free cpu cores. Thus it can not parallelize writes. Which is unfortunate, because I love that filesystem; only that I don't use it as much as I would like. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)