Benjamin Scott writes: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Fr�d�ric Marmond wrote: > > so, why would I stay in reiserfs? > > Crash with ext2 = Long wait for fsck, possible data and/or metadata > corruption, possibly even losing large parts of the filesystem. > > Crash with reiserfs = No long fsck, filesystem structure is safe, possible > corruption of file data only. > > Note that if the system crashes while files are in active use, you are > likely going to have semantic corruption of the file contents regardless of > what filesystem you are running.
Reiser4 is going to provide user visible transactions (not full ACID transactions, though), but not in 4.0. This will allow applications to preserve high-level semantic integrity also. > Nikita.
