I've been using Reiser4 on my laptop for a while and all I can say is,
well, that's the only filesystem that makes a crap 5200rpm drive
responsive and usable. That's really great !
However, there are a few problems...
Sometimes, when I power down the laptop, the usual power down sequence :
- Unmounting Filesystems
- Remounting FS read-only
- Power Down
Stops at "Unmounting Filesystems" and stays there forever ; and I have to
shutdown the thing manually, pressing for 10 seconds on the power button.
Annoying.
Also, a few days ago, my laptop battery died and the thing had a hard
shutdown. The harddisk had spinned down a moment ago (I remember hearing
it doing its clunk-bzzzzz....). Before you mention, no, I don't use the
thingie to automatically shutdown the laptop just before the battery dies,
because ACPI sucks on mine, and 50% of the time it says 0% charge left
when, in reality, it's at 99%, and the damn thing would shut itself down
every 5 minutes.
So, after that, my Reiser4 FS died and I had to run a fsck with
rebuild-tree from a kanotix boot cdrom.
What happened ?
