On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:51 -0400, Donald A. Tevault wrote: > Agreed. reiserfs is my favorite fs for my desktop systems, and I almost > always use it when I have a choice. > So, I say, leave it on the exam. It's still a valid option.
My biggest two (2) issues with ReiserFS, which has always been its issues, are: 1. Fluid structure leaving non-kernel, userspace tools out-of-date 2. Fluid structure causing kernel/user compatibility issues Time and time and time again I've run into a kernel update that changes ReiserFS operations, and those change affect the userspace tools -- i.e., the structure has changed from them. This was supposed to not be the case with at least ReiserFS v3, per Linus requirements, and yet I've seen this happen in many distros. As I understand it, and have been told by many sources, Novell began deprecating ReiserFS for these same two (2) reasons after acquiring SuSE, before the whole issues with the project leader (Hans Reiser). >From the standpoint of Red Hat, which makes a hefty amount of money replacing UNIX systems, these two issues have always been the problem. I would argue there's far more interest in XFS for enterprise filesystems than ReiserFS any day. I know a lot of people swear by ReiserFS on the desktop, but Ext3, especially with directory indexing and when you put it in write back mode (instead of the "safer" ordered writes default), removes virtually all of ReiserFS' performance advantages. Enterprises are about reliability and continuity. Now that's my biased opinion, but it's a big reality that I regularly run into. I find it extremely difficult to find any enterprise Linux administrators who put much fail in ReiserFS, at least compared to Ext3 or XFS. And yes, I say this about XFS even though Red Hat does not support it in its Enterprise Linux line -- I'm just offering XFS as a second example and not trying to make it only ReiserFS v. Ext3, because it's not. ;) -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance Mugshot Homepage: http://mugshot.org/person?who=58wDcGKx6NcZAb --------------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
