I've haven't seen those problems with ext4.  I ran it on thousands of 
machines in a school environment where the kids more often than not 
would just turn the power off in order to leave quickly.  So the 
machines got hard rebooted several times a day and I never had any 
problem with any of them scrambling their data.  They just took a lickin 
and kept on ticking... much to my amazement, I had just assumed that 
they would screw on up from time to time by just random chance.

I can tell you that a kid picking up a keyboard and beating a computer 
with it seems to be a sure fire way to scramble the data though :)

Brian Cluff

On 10/24/2012 06:51 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I can't say I've much seen ext4 stabilize.  I've had way more issues
> with it with unclean shutdowns and repairs that need intervention than I
> ever had with reiserfs for far longer.
>
> Admittedly all the issues may or may not be ext4's direct fault, but
> I've tried as much wackiness then w/reiser as I do now experimenting
> with features now that cause a panic, and found ext4 somewhat more
> fragile when provoked.  YMMV.
>
> I don't condone reiserfs's use much today because the performance is
> pretty poor by modern standards (check phoronix for benchmarks against
> ext3/4, btrfs, xfs).  Otherwise I'd rather trust my data to Reiser's
> code personally, dubious character of the creator or not.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 10/24/2012 11:52 AM, Ryan Rix wrote:
>> On Thu 18 October 2012 08:49:34 Derek Trotter wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I never really saw the purpose of Resiser since ext4 stabilized. However!
>> ReiserFS is murderously fast and has tons of killer features
>>
>> http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer
>>
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