| Jeff Abrahamson on 17 Feb 2007 20:30:16 -0000 |
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:39:09PM -0500, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > I've been a long-time user of Reiserfs, but with Hans gone its > future seems very much in jeopardy. I also hear of problems with > storing reiserfs images on a reiserfs partition, which it seems will > confuse the filesystem and thoroughly bork its structure. The > question is, what would I replace it with? > > Many seem quite pleased with the performance of XFS, but it seems it > has a healthy share of critics who claim it to be easily > corruptible. Indeed, the delayed allocation feature seems to cause > problems by not correctly following the Single UNIX Spec. There are > bugs that look fairly nasty, like this one: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7258 Note that this bug was closed ten days after it was opened. The problem is fixed as of kernel 2.6.18.6 and 2.6.19. It mostly affected users of dm_crypt. Any FS will have bugs. This isn't an argument for Reiser, just an argument for rational review. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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