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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