On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 20:39, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
Question is.... do I trust the Reiser partition to continue working now?
Is reiser still maintained? In the aftermath of the Reiser trial, I switched my non-ext partitions to JFS. The truth is, as a desktop I've noticed no difference. Unless you have a compelling reason to stick with reiser (email server, or other lots of small files with frequent turnover) then you can switch.
Speaking as a Cyrus IMAP admin - the small-file argument is pretty much bogus at this point. With dir index enabled current ext3 is pretty good; that plus directory hashing [a server feature] you have to have a very large load to record a significant different between filesystems.
Thanks. I've heard that today the ext filesystems are fine for email servers, but never from anyone that I'd call reliably experienced enough to know :).
According to wikipedia Reiser is still maintained, so the OP can continue using it if he wishes. I personally would keep the filesystem as it is if this is an isolated incident. But if it happens again, JFS or ext3.
I only use Reiser out of habit.... it used to be the default on openSUSE many releases ago... and I've stuck with it since all my drives ended up Reiser formatted. I'm more than happy to change though... there is no technical reason I[m using Reiser. I used to use ext3 (or was that ext2?), but got tired of what was at the time an annoying fsck on some boots. On my main machine I don't mind using a file system that I need to tweak a little, or that is default to do a file system check on every 20th mount The computer hardly ever restarts, so that 20th mount might be once ever 6 months or even longer I picked Resier on the laptop I did the 11.2 install on because I am unfamiliar with ext4... and knew Reiser. This laptop is in another person's home.. and I'm not able to even rlogin to it to do maintenance if it's needed. I didn't want to have an unknown if it wasn't necessary. Also, I definitely did not want the user (first time Linux user) to bump into the 20th mount fsck thing on etx3 and the slow boot. I've got the laptop booting to the KDE4 desktop in about 15 or 16 seconds right now, and the user loves that. The laptop is started up and shutdown several times per day... so the 20th mount would be bumped into rather quickly. Yes I know I could tweak that... I don't want to have to deal with it though on a remote system... etc etc. You know... now that I think of it.. is that 20th mount fsck a relic of ext2? and not done on ext3? I can't remember... I've gotten into the habit and assumption that ext=fsck in really inconvenient times... but is that still a reality? I'm running ext4 on my own laptop, and will probably start to migrate my main machine over to ext4 (so I am on the default openSUSE filesystem again) with 11.3. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org