Carlos E. R. said the following on 10/06/2013 09:14 AM:
El 2013-10-01 a las 22:51 -0500, Duaine Hechler escribió:
Ok, when I decided on the use of the Resiserfs, I needed the absolute max use of the drive.
Consider that when reiserfs was designed disk space was smaller. One problem with it is that it doesn't scale well to large filesystems, or several filesystems (one thread only). I love reiserfs, but it has its limits. Don't use it for the entire space, use it only on smaller spaces with usage types where it shines - like for instance the news pool, with millions of inodes and small files.
As Carlos says, in the right context ReiserFS is solid and a great file system. I use it with small(er) file systems such as my collection of PDFs, mail on my mail server (maildir AND the hundred of smaller mbox) and a few other places such as my Ruby development partition. Using ReiserFS with LVM on a larger disk so as to break the partitions down into a more manageable size (I use 5G partitions so I can 'mirror' backup them to a DVD via a snapshot) works very well. I don't know what Carlos means about 'thread' -- I use ReiserFS on a NFS server - the PDFs & Ruby partitions I mentioned - and have no problems with it. Perhaps Carlos can expand on what he means. ReiserFS also makes mirroring very easy :-) The criticism that its not seen much revision is a bit gratuitous; compare with, for example, Microsoft's Internet Explorer which was broken-by-design and needs constant fixing, or Firefox which is accumulating eye-candy. ReiserFS was and is a good, robust design. What is interesting is that while UNIX was the stripped down version of Multics, BtrFS seems to be a version of the ReiserFS with all the bells and whistles - Multics/UNIX in reverse. What Brooks called "The Second System Effect". I'm happy playing with BtrFS on my desktop but I use ReiserFS for the stuff I absolutely don't want to loose. I've found it more reliable than ext3FS. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org