On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:07, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Now all I've got to do is to configure it. I'm using ReiserFS on the > main 850GB Raid5 partition. Any other suggestions?
> Reiser4? Only problem is that it is not officially in the Kernel, unjustifiably in my opinion, and has to be patched in. I have been using Reiser4 for nearly a year on my lappie if I remember correctly, more than six months anyway, with no problems whatsoever, whereas all the other file systems I have used over the years have bombed out in some way or other, all losing data. I don't think that Reiser4 is exactly the fastest of all file systems, but it does appear to be much more secure than any of the others I have tried. Secure in the sense of not losing data. Also if set to be nice, huge file operations don't bog the machine while other less sophisticated filesystems make the machine completely unusable. > I'm not too keen on using XFS having had it fall apart on me. My experience too. While in Dunedin I did hear that XFS's quite serious problems about a year ago have been fixed. I no longer feel happy to trust it. The problems with Reiser4 are not technical. It is that there is a huge emotional gulf separating Linus and Hans, neither of whom appear to want to do much about closing the gap. fwiw, I did a Gentoo install last week and selected JFS. It worked fine for a few hours, and I have no reason to suspect that it would not continue to do so. -- CS
