On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > > 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > > - ReiserFS looks unsupported now > > > > What do you base that assessment on ? It's true > > that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal problems, > > but RFS 3 is still well-supported as a Gentoo pkg, isn't it ? > > reiserfs is still supported by its devs. It is just in maintenance-mode. No > features added, just bug fixes. Some people confuse that with > 'unsupported'. > > And one look at the reiserfs-ml would show all the people claiming that > reiserfs or reiser4 are unsuppored wrong.
I have been using reiserfs since 2003/04 on all sort of different boxen and xfs on /usr/portage on my laptop for the last two years. I set up reiserfs for everything except /boot on a particular desktop machine, which had some incompatible memory modules on a super-sensitive MoBo that caused it to crash as often as twice a day, some times more. Over a period of two years this amounts to an awful lot of crashes midstream of emerging packages, updating portage and what not. I never lost any data, although once I ended up with all the access rights on some files being switched to 0000. More recently said box corrupted a reiserfs partition (due to some handfisted action of mine) while it was clearing out ccache. A --fix-fixable wouldn't cut it, but --rebuild-tree got it back up on its feet in no time. On the other hand, my laptop's xfs /usr/portage partition has corrupted itself irreparably at least 3-4 times so far, on a healthy battery. That said it's been behaving well over the last year or so. I don't mean to generalise with the above observations, which may well be not representative of the respective file systems. However, I built a SUSE machine last month for a small office and I had no hesitation using reiserfs for all partitions including lvm. YMMV. -- Regards, Mick
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