Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:30 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2007-09-10 at 10:03 -0400, bcoffey@ wrote:
I am about to install openSuSE 10.2 on two new computers and see that the
10.2 default file system is ext3 and not Reiser. I'd like some advice as
whether to accept the ext3 default or to go with Reiser as I have in the
past.
The reiserfs will likely not get improvements, that's all. If it has
worked for you in the past, you can just keep using it as safely as
before. I use it.
In my experience, reiserfs is not safe. It frequently fails
(corruption and/or file loss) in the event of improper shutdown
such as power failure or system crash.
Conversely, in Iraq, where I experienced frequent power-related
shutdowns, and a couple crashes (due to I think, running out of
swap space), I never lost a single file using ext3 and xfs.
I could be mistaken, but i thought the use of xfs inherrently required
the use of a no-break power supply, as it holds more data in mem,,,,,
Both are journalled filesystems, but there seems to be an
implementation error in Reiserfs 3.x, because I had several
fsck failures after power outages.
XFS's journalling mechanism seems (in my experience) to be
much closer to the ideal. Other people have experienced
losses with XFS, but I'm beginning to believe that those
were hardware related (physical defects on the hard drive),
which currently, a problem to which currently all filesystems
are susceptable.
Hans
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