Derek Fountain wrote:
I am a little confused on what the Reiser FS really is. I am under the impression that it is a reliable way to avoid corruption on a filesystem if the system crashes unexpectedly. If this is correct, why would this FS be used on root? The root FS isn't very dynamic. If things ever change on root it is usually a substantial system modifications that don't happen very often. Maybe a few new mount points and such, but would this be considered a great risk if done when the system happens to crash?
Am I way off base here? Can someone please bring me back to the light?
Depends how your system is set up. I have my /tmp on the root filesystem, plus /var/log and several other areas which get updated constantly. In fact, I think my wwwoffle spool goes into /var/somethingorother. People will tell me that this is bad, but it works for me.
Also, ReiserFS doesn't avoid corruption on a filesystem that goes down unexpectedly - it only avoids meta data corrupion on it. I've seen a couple of posts to this list recently from folks making this mistake. I hope the increasing popularity of journalling file systems doesn't create too much over confidence in the Linux community. Crashes still chew your data!
So true. The ONLY advatage I can see using it on ANY partition is it's fast recovery time when when you do go down unexpectedly. For small partitions I don't even bother with it. Anything over 2gb it's well worth it though. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com