----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] Courier-Imap over NFS or OCFS


> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:43PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
>> All I can tell you is that we had a big Reiserfs filesystem get corrupted
>> last year. Several very experienced sysadmins spent over a week trying to
>> repair it. They failed. Much of the data was backups from other systems,
>> which wasn't too important, but there was some important data which *was*
>> lost.
>>
>> Maybe the tools have gotten better in the last year. But as a result of 
>> that
>> experience, we don't use ReiserFS any more.
>
> Just trying to find some references to back this up, there's Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
>
> "Something that has attracted much criticism is the tree rebuild process 
> of
> ReiserFS fsck: If the filesystem becomes so badly corrupt that the
> filesystem internal tree is unusable, a tree rebuild operation can be
> performed which may even further corrupt existing files on it, or 
> introduce
> new entries with unexpected contents"
>
> which in turn links to:
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.3/0219.html
>
> Wikipedia does say that Reiser4 fixes this though.
>
> B.

Oh, and if that's not enough, RieserFS 3 can't even beat performance-wise 
XFS on file sizes of 1-12KB. With all that was said about how great it is on 
small files, it trailed on postmark test...

And forgive me if i'm gonna wait, oh, about 3 years to try ReiserFS 4 - lets 
see tha bugs, lets see how if at all they're fixed.

Vadim

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