The reason to recommend reiser is performance, and in fact, ext2 gives much better performance. It just isn't journaled. As I said, you should certainly pick your filesystem based on your needs. In big business, data integrity is the name of the game, since clients hate it when you lose their data. I'm not trying to suggest that reiserfs is the right solution for anybody, or even anybody per se. I'm much more concerned with clearing up FUD. The point I'm making is that if Linus Torvalds went to prison tomorrow (hypothetically, I understand he's a fine upstanding citizen) the Linux community would be sad, but we wouldn't have to close up shop. Similarly though Mr. de Raadt's contributions to OpenBSD are invaluable, if he quit programming and became a buddhist monk high in the Himalayas where constant blizzards prevented even a satellite uplink the IT world would go on using OpenSSH. If reiserfs turns out to be important to the community, somebody will pick up the pieces and maintain it. That's the whole point of open source. We'll see what happens now that Mr. Gates has left the helm of Microsoft, eh?
Sincerely, Erik Johnson On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a while, there was a recommendation for reiser, perhaps back in SLES 8 or > so. > But then, I started seeing recommendations for EXT3, which now has been my FS > of choice in SLES 9 and SLES 10. > > When I reviewed the decision making process, I concluded that EXT3 was just > fine for what I want at this time. 10-50 GB file system, not a high > performer requirement. I have a DS6800 Ficon attached. Way too fast for my > workload at this time. > > The future may be different, where I trade of some reliability for better > performance. (Would I really do that? <G>). > > > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > >>>> Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/8/2008 1:19 PM >>> > On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: >> Adam Thornton had at least once instance where reiserfs ate his data >> on a system under heavy load. All in all, enough to make someone >> running a business to worry. > > Much worse: it ate a customer's data. > > Suffice it to say, I no longer use or recommend reiserfs--particularly > since the Reiser maintainers' position when I complained was "well, > you should be using the newest version." My customer didn't really > want to go with a version that, you know, WASN'T SUPPORTED IN THE > DISTRIBUTION. > > Ext3, on the other hand, wasn't all that fast, but WAS quite stable. > My feelings about the stability of the filesystem are completely > orthogonal to my feelings about the stability of its inventor. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
