Reiserfs

[Michael Butash]

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
>