On Sunday 24 May 2009 03:43:41 Bryan J Smith wrote: > 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. ;)
As a currently practising enterprise Linux admin I would have to agree with you. I simply do now allow ReiserFS to be deployed, for a veriety of reasons.Most important is that I have severe doubts about being able to get the same level of support as for ext3. On my personal notebook and desktops I use Reiser - force of habit mostly, from the days when I needed the performance advantages. But never on my employers machines. However, I don't think the time is right to deprecate it from the exams. We should wait a while still for that till machines that have been running it for years reach EOL - determined by the time when distros that did default to Reiser have reached EOL -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
