I can speak from experience. I used to use only ReiserFS, until I had a corruption on a 60GB Maildir mailstore. A tree rebuild was required. This took a whopping 17 hours on a high end Apple XServe RAID Array. Needless to say that after this I've migrated away from ReiserFS to XFS and have been very happy. Anytime I've had a problem with and XFS file system that required xfs_repair to be run, it was very swift.
Now all this was with ReiserFS 3. I have no experience with ReiserFS 4. HTH, Tren > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:08 PM > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] OT - Preferred File Systems > > > I'd like to get some input on the best filesystem for the i-ram > drive. > > EXT3 > > is out because writes are slowed to the speed of a hard drive. I'm > leaning > > towards reiserfs or xfs. However, I've read (wikipedia) that reiserfs > is > > easily corrupted. xfs seems the best. > > > > Anyone have any comments of suggestions. > > I've heard good things about xfs, but no personal experience. However, > I > would STRONGLY DISCOURAGE you from running reiserfs for this. I've > seen, > and dealt with, resierfs corrupting filesystems and it's a nightmare. I > do > not have a good opinion of resierfs after real world experience with > it. > > -- > Mike Garrison > > > !DSPAM:476c3b87310541291091484!
