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