Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Reiser, to be frank, scares me. I've heard too many horror stories > about changing on-disk formats and the like. Both ext3 and XFS have > very solid, stable on-disk formats. Just thought I'd throw my $.02 in to this discussion, as it seems relevant. I used to use Reiser for all my systems, and laughed off the issues other people reported. However, recently I had a fairly serious amount of data loss due to a power outage when using Reiserfs (on Ubuntu Breezy, 2.6.12 kernel, so not old tools), and I've since switched my important data to XFS. It looks like Reiser (v3 at least) doesn't have the level of atomicity I'd expect from the filesystem, and so even after running their recovery tools, I lost a whole tree worth of data.
Feel free to use it yourself if you're confident you'll never lose power, though. ;) Graeme
