I ran reiserfs for _everything_ I did up to about 2yr ago switching to
ext4 once Reiser was sentenced and likely never going to write code
again. In that time I never once had fs corruption occur to lose data,
and only don't think once I had to repair a file system with reiser.
Performance was lacking as others were still evolving where it had
stopped, so I moved on begrudgingly.
That was in days that laptop bios was dubious contributors to unclean
shutdowns/suspends and other ugliness, so I was quite impressed with it.
Flip side, ext4 has been caused me more corruption than I care to admit
or know, having to a few times single-user a box to manually fsck it. I
get lots of dubious oddities I attribute to the fs, but could also be
the (crappy) ssd's, as that was about the time I switched to using them
too. I layer encryption, lvm, and raid enough that I lose trim ability,
so not sure how much that factors into it. All in all I consider going
back to reiser occasionally in frustration...
Side note, I saw just yesterday development is actually still ongoing
with reiser4, as his work is being carried on by another
contributor/employee of reiser's old company making progress. I
somewhat plan on going btrfs to lose the lvm/raid layering done with
lvm2 and md today (and get trim/protest ext4 pissing me off), but if not
that, I might try reiser4 at some point for grins. Any one else brave
enough to run it on a machine they use yet?
-mb
On 10/18/2012 09:00 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
From: Derek Trotter
I noticed when I installed the latest kubuntu a couple of weeks ago
that reiserfs was one of the options to use for formatting the
partition. Does it have some advantage over newer filesystems? Or
is it there because it's been around for several years?
There are theoretical advantages to using reiserfs if you've got a huge number
of small files. I didn't notice any difference in performance between
reiserfs and ext3 when I had partitions of both types on the same system,
though. Reports from the trenches say that if you've got filesystem
corruption, then reiserfsck has a greater chance of totally hosing everything
than e2fsck does. The one time I had to use reiserfsck, it recovered
everything, but that's just me.
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