Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Juan Erbes wrote:
> 2008/3/2, Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>:
> >  On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Juan Erbes wrote:
> >  > 2008/2/22, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>:
> >  > > Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> >  > >  > Not wishing to reopen old flames and wounds, but in the last 2 days 
> > I
> >  > >  > have had problems with ext3. On this 11.0 Alpha2 box I have
> >  > >  > /dev/sdb1 as / (JFS) 500G SATA
> >  > >  > /dev/sdb2 /boot (reiserfs)
> >  > >  > /dev/sda1 /ftp  (ext3)  320G SATA
> >  > >  > Suddenly there was a system freeze that needed a hard reset and when
> >  > >  > booting, after the grub selection, a black screen appeared. I had to
> >  > >  > boot from 11.0 Alpha2 CD and run fsck. The ext3 partition was the 
> > one
> >  > >  > with the problem and it took ages to get through. The fsck for the
> >  > >  > reiserfs  and JFS were all clean.
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Last night on a box belonging to a relative on which I did a fresh
> >  > >  > 10.3 install to a new HD /dev/sda1 (160G PATA ext3), with the old 
> > 10.0
> >  > >  > HD as /dev/sdb2 (80G PATA reiserfs), I inadvertently pulled the 
> > wrong
> >  > >  > plug and powered the box off. The ext3 drive drive took over an hour
> >  > >  > to fix, the reiserfs drive took minutes, complaining of 3 errors,
> >  > >  > quickly fixed with --fix-fixable.
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Is there any chance we could have JFS as an install choice for 11.0?
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Isn't JFS available in 10.3 - just with a big warning that it's
> >  > >  untested?
> >  > >
> >  >
> >  > The new kernel for Opensuse 11 has support for ReiserFS4?
> >  >
> >  > What is about the support of ReiserFS4 as default file system in 
> > Opensuse 11?
> >  >
> >  > I have now in my system (workstation) ext3, and from time to time when
> >  > it executes the automatic fsck (60 days), it takes about 40 minutes
> >  > for a hard disk of 250 GB, and in many of this cases, I hate only 30
> >  > minutes to see the emails and go out.
> >  > With ReiserFS3, I not hate those problems to wait for use the
> >  > workstation 30 or 40 minutes,  as with ext3 happens.
> >
> >
> > I love the solidity of ext3.
> >  If it does check (wasting your time), you have a far better chance to
> >  "survive" against the others.
>
> Two years ago are some people using Reiser4 without problems, and with
> true better perfomance compared to ext3:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/16/148
>
> But they are some Linux kernel saboteurs:
> http://linuxhelp.150m.com/jews/saboteurs.htm
>
> A simple guide to include Reiser4:
> http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/compile-kernel.htm

We need support to be able to sleep at night. Writing statements/arguing 
pro-con is a totally different thing.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)