On Wednesday 21 June 2006 16:19, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Of course it is quite likely reiserfs has gotten more stable in the > > couple of years since I stopped using it. I just don't think it has any > > features that make me interested in trying it again. Liek really, what > > features does reiserfs have that I could possibly want that ext3 doesn't > > have? > > Well, in Francesco's case, since he apparently already set up everything > with reiserfs, you should ask the opposite question: what does ext3 offer > that he doesn't have with the _current_ version of reiserfs? I haven't got > such a huge experience, but I had a few hardware failures on disks with > reiserfs, relatively recently, and the recovery tools performed quite well: > I only lost those data which had something to do with the damaged blocks, > all the rest was salvaged. So, in my personal book, the overwhelmingly > large majority of data losses were invariably due to hardware failures, and > I did not see any correlation between data losses and using reiserfs vs. > ext3. My recent personal statistics count ~10 broken hard disks over many > computers in the past 2 years. My only personal gripe with reiserfs is that > it takes a long time to mount large filesystems, but I do not mount/umount > big filesystems so frequently. If I were in Francesco's shoes, unless I had > other reasons for redoing everything, I would keep the working filesystem, > be it reiserfs or ext3, and start using his new system for quantum > chemistry, which I understand is what he wants to get to...
I did that in the last couple of days. With mpqc set for the four nodes, a large molecule at BFT with a 485 base set, was done in four hours vs 1 month with my previous non-parallel computing package. Not bad. francesco > > Just my 2¢... > > Giacomo > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > > Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________________ > > OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI > Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) > > Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 > Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 > _________________________________________________________________ > > "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" > (Freddy Mercury) > _________________________________________________________________