On 20:42 Mon 31 Jul , Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Llu, 2006-07-31 am 12:17 -0700, ysgrifennodd Clay Barnes: > > Of course, if ext3 were proven to be more robust against failures, I bet > > the reiser team would be very interested in all the forensic data you > > can offer, since, from what I've seen, they are always trying to make > > reiser as good as possible---in speed, flexability, *and* robustness. > > Its well accepted that reiserfs3 has some robustness problems in the > face of physical media errors. The structure of the file system and the > tree basis make it very hard to avoid such problems. XFS appears to have > managed to achieve both robustness and better data structures.
Yes, that is true, and I think that's a big motivator for the reiser team to get reiser4 in a place where people can't say that. I suspect that they know that reiserfs's shortcomings in that respect are probably the biggest deterrent to using that fs, and they'll do everything they can to prevent such a problem in reiser4. That's pure conjecture based on the stuff I see on the list, so if I'm wrong, reiser people, please correct me. --Clay > > How reiser4 compares I've no idea. > > Alan
