Can't speak for reiserfs but XFS has been solid here for over a year and I know people who are running a large number of business systems (servers, etc.) on XFS.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:23:38 -0500 "Jeffrey Smelser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I see about once a week someone asking about Reiserfs and problems.. I use ext3.. But I just can't figure out if these are user things or if reiserfs just that "flaky"..
I don't see to much ext2/3 or xfs questions.. But I don't know just how many people actually use XFS..
Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following:
"ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may have lost some files or directories due to the corruption."
Granted I should have read this before doing the install, but, I made
all my partitions Reiser (except for boot). So now I'm wondering
about the likelihood of data corruption. Has anyone experienced it?
Are there things I can do to ensure it doesn't happen to me (or at
least reduce the possibility)? (Other than "backup early, backup
often" of course :)
From my expirience reiserfs is definately a stable and good file system.
The reason for many of the mails is that reiserfs complains about problems (e.g. with the drive) much earlier than other filesystems.
If you count that as a pro or con is up to you.
Christian
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