I have had mixed results. I tried to keep my mouth shut during the whole
thread, but I can't any longer. I experimented with Reiser since 7.2. All
it did was each my paritions and I think the VIA bug has something to do
with it. But this was not a rare occation, it ate my /home and /var
multiple times and on different machines (all three had some VIA chipset
as I only use AMD). Then, the newer Reiser version cameout and changing
the paritions to those helped but I still saw problems where it reported a
directory to have 2 gigs of data in it when I only had 400 megs!
I must have been smoking something, because for my server, I went all
ReiserFS with the latest 8.0. I was doing a switch from the old server to
a new one and in the excitement I forgot about my ReiserFS problems. I
almost switch back as soon as I realized what I had done. However, I just
bited down and did regular backups waiting for when it went south. IT
NEVER DID! I hope I am not talking too soon, but for a few months it has
been running w/o any problems. I would still waite for it to mature more
or use XFS, which I have used in many of my desktops. IMHO anyways...
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Harry wrote:
> On 8/6/01 2:04 AM, "Stefan Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Since then I don't trust ReiserFS => I wouldn't install it
> > currently on a critical system, only on playgounds for data loosing ...
>
> Depending on the nature of your electrical failure, no data is really safe
> if it is preceded by a spike while the drive writes to the disk. In general,
> I have found Reiserfs to be admirably reliable.
>
> Harry
>
>
