Re: Reiserfs

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Author: Derek Trotter
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To: michael, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Reiserfs

On 10/18/2012 10:57 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> 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.


I do recall reading something a few years ago about Reiser getting in
trouble for executing an illegal command. As I recall it was kill -9 wife.

snip

> 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?


I may give it a try one of these days. I do have the free disk space
available so I could resize an existing partition to create a 500MB or
so reiser4 partition. When I do, I'll put stuff on it that I have a
copy of elsewhere. That will give me something to do one evening this week.
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