Aaron Kulkis wrote:
In my experience, reiserfs is not safe. It frequently fails (corruption and/or file loss) in the event of improper shutdown such as power failure or system crash.
Conversely, in Iraq, where I experienced frequent power-related shutdowns, and a couple crashes (due to I think, running out of swap space), I never lost a single file using ext3 and xfs.
Dunno, but I think there must have been something else going on there. Maybe you were running an old version, or you were running it on some old redhat 2.4 kernel (which I've seen problems with) FWIW reiserfs as shipped by suse has been a trooper for us, a rock star of the data center as it were. It wouldn't be shipped with SLES if it were flaky. Those stuffy Swiss bankers have a low tolerance for bugs, you know. When we building some big new servers a year or so ago, I did some benchmarks on ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs and xfs. ext3 had some real performance issues, xfs showed very consistent performance, and jfs had modest performance, but the lowest cpu usage. For sheer i/o speed, ext2 was the winner, with reiserfs coming in second, far ahead of the rest of the pack. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org