There are absolutely lots of problems with ReiserFS. It's best deployed on a home user's PC. The journaling is great if you lose power abruptly, but it's faster than some of the more mature journaling file systems. It doesn't really pose a serious threat to data integrity there because the most often anybody writes to their PC filesystem is their nervous habit of saving documents they're working on. It makes little or no sense in commercial settings where high data availability and high data integrity are paramount and where performance issues get solved with faster hardware.
The important point I was trying to make had nothing to do with the technical aspects of the software. It was just clearing up FUD. When an open source project loses its lead developer, that doesn't mean you have to throw your hands up and switch to a different software package for your needs. There's a whole community out there that can pick up the slack. That's the point. Not whether anybody should be hastily changing the format of enterprise file systems. Sorry for any confusion I may have inadvertently caused. Erik Johnson On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:58 AM, John Summerfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I generally agree with those sentiments, but I would also consider >> vendor support now and in the future. > > I consider ReiserFS still a bit niche development. If it is not > carried by the masses, some of the open source mechanisms don't scale > well. It may not be tested as well on s390, for example. I believe > early SuSE distributions had an endian problem in the ReiserFS > utilities. I know of several installations that lost their data when > fsck "repaired" things after an abrupt outage (could lead officials to > the dead drives) I am just not very willing to try again. > -Rob > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
