On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> on 7/23/00 11:00 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:43:26PM -0500, Vic wrote:
> >
> >> Just wondering,
> >> how does everyone who is trying out the reiser fs like it?
> >>
> >> Any pros cons?
>
>
> does anyone see it replacing EXT2 as the default anytime soon?
Nope... Still kinda Beta. Also it can be a lot slower in some
circumstances--On a 6x86MX system using Reiser and StarOffice 5.2 off a
partition with tails, the screen took forever to update on a 7-page document
with only a few meg of color photos embedded and some small tables... Going
back to ext2fs restored the (barely acceptable) performance.
And I managed to hose some reiserfs partitions by copying a few meg onto them
over an nfs mount.
And another person on the Cooker list set up a mailserver using reiser and also
hosed the mail partition under heavy load.
But the theory is very sound and these problems will be worked out--just need
patience. I am running a server with all non-changing partitions (/, /usr,
/etc, /tmp, /opt, /var but not /usr/local, or /home) and a few changing ones
as reiserfs and the server runs well and has been running since early June in
that fashion.
Civileme
