Strange how Jarry is quiet about all this... Anyway, I've been using reiser for a long time, I had a small server for some things of mine (CVS, Apache, etc) running with it. It survived some intense eletrical storms and it didn't lose data for the 6 months it was up (Processor "fried", so I had to shut it down ;) ).
I kinda avoid ext(2|3) for pure prejudice. Don't have anything to complain about them, but when I migrated from Mandrake, I left behind everything that had anything to do with RPM distros*. Since they use ext3 as default FS, I changed that too. Since I got used to reiser, I never got back. So, basically, ext(2|3) are good and reliable, but, in my experience, so is reiserfs, and reiser is faster. Never used XFS, but from the previous comments, it seems to be very good in a very controlled enviroment (power backups, independent generator, no-breaks, etc) and for large files. It is a matter of compromise. What is the main purpose of your server? * - Don't ask me why, just started hating the damn thing... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
