Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[William Gallafent <william@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:32, Michael W Cocke wrote:
> On the contrary - several people, myself included, have
> had serious stability issues with Reiser 3.  The longest I
> ever had a Reiser 3 filesystem 'hold together' was about 4
> weeks.  There are others in here who have had similar
> experiences.

I had hardware problems (PCI bus saturation leading to lost
data with AMD 760MP chipset and (I think - it was a long
time ago) Promise ATA-133 PCI card, which caused filesystem
corruption, and consequent stability problems which I
initially blamed on the FS. I only heard about the problem
with the 760MP chipset later, which was almost certainly
responsible. (I can't find the specific conversation I had
on this matter ...)

This corruption occured on a ReiserFS filesystem on a
software RAID0 array, but can't be blamed on ReiserFS
itself, since the hardware was the broken part.

Recovery was fairly painful, but I got most of the data back
with a day's work. I don't have a comparable experience with
another FS, so can't say how much easier / harder the
recovery would have been there, but I must admit that it
looked pretty worrying for a while.

The same machine has been rock solid since (once I put the
drives on the onboard ATA-100 controller, and turned AGP
down from 4x to 2x), still using ReiserFS (I think it runs
SuSE 9.1 at the moment, though I haven't used it for a while
...)

-- 
Bill