reiserfs reliability

[Amit Nepal]

Thank you very much for the input, I think I will go with xfs . what do 
you think about xfs ?


*Amit K Nepal
Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
omNovia Technologies Inc. <http://www.omnovia.com>

<http://www.amitnepal.com>*
On 4/16/2013 9:56 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Amit Nepal
>> I am thinking to use reiserfs in one of my storage servers. I have not
>> used reiserfs before and I am wondering how reliable it is. Any one have
>> any experience with the reliability of reiserfs?
> I used it on my home machine for a few years.  No problems, modulo a totally
> unrelated kernel bug eating part of my / .  reiserfsck --rebuild-tree got
> everything back.
>
>> it seems to be good for faster access
> I saw no measurable difference in wall-clock performance between ext3 and
> reiserfs.  I didn't do insane amounts of benchmarking, though.  (There are 5
> species of mendacity, each worse than the last:  Lies, damned lies,
> statistics, benchmarks, and vendor promises.)  The main thing I got from the
> community was that certain kinds of failures will totally hose your filesystem
> if it's reiserfs and be at least partially recoverable if it's ext3.
>

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