I've been using it on everything but /boot for a while now, and it's completely fine. I have decent hardware and an up-to-date kernel, and it works great.
My friends also use it, and they, too, have never had a problem. The only time it has ever failed on me (or anyone I personally know) was a webserver at work, which was a P120, running on old Mandrake Kernel. (I didn't set the box up). Personally, I backup my important data to another drive. I love the speed that reiserfs seems to give me, and I have no qualms whatsoever in using it (or recommending it). Yes, it can mess up, but so can most filesystems. If you have good hardware, it shouldn't be a problem. Max. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:36, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:02, Nate Duehr wrote: > > My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to "try it out" on a brand new > > Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. > > > > Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair > > with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or anything > > like that, and have been doing admin work for many years on Linux. > > > > ReiserFS? Never again. I have over 80 machines using ext3 that "just > > work". Why I even bothered with ReiserFS on that one machine is beyond > > me... > > > > Nate > > Strange, as I have been using it since it's first inclusion in the > (2.2?) kernel, and have never had a problem at all. Are you sure your > hardware/setup were sound at the time, or were you just unlucky? > > > Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > > > > Well, I see about once a week someone asking about Reiserfs and problems.. I use > > > ext3.. But I just can't figure out if these are user things or if reiserfs just > > > that "flaky".. > > > > > > I don't see to much ext2/3 or xfs questions.. But I don't know just how many > > > people actually use XFS.. > > > > > > > > >>Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: > > >> > > >>"ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc > > >> > > >> If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux > > >> boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted > > >>filesystem. > > >> This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may > > >> have lost some files or directories due to the corruption." > > >> > > >>Granted I should have read this before doing the install, but, I made > > >>all my partitions Reiser (except for boot). So now I'm wondering > > >>about the likelihood of data corruption. Has anyone experienced it? > > >>Are there things I can do to ensure it doesn't happen to me (or at > > >>least reduce the possibility)? (Other than "backup early, backup > > >>often" of course :) > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
