----- 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
