reiserfs reliability

[Michael Butash]

I'd used reiserfs on production  (well, every desktop/laptop I owned and 
dozens of vm's to play with) for a good 4-5 years, and had no incidents 
that I simply could not recover all data from.  Worst case I had to fsck 
a few times, but in maybe the 2 years or so I've used ext4, gotten far 
more problems, and had some data lost even.

Performance was notably better going to it, and shortly thereafter moved 
to ssd in another league all together.  That said, there's a few times 
I've sworn to end up back on reiser dealing with ext, but still on ext4 
currently.

Most of my issue with fs' is having to layer mdadm, dmcrypt/luks, and 
lvm still to accomplish "enterprise-y" function.  Btrfs and zfs somewhat 
replace mdadm and lvm, but still absolutely require luks wedged in there 
for encryption on personal systems, and both are still somewhat work in 
progress.  I'd love to replace all three with one fs finally with native 
performance gains.

-mb


On 04/16/2013 09:40 AM, Amit Nepal wrote:
> I am thinking to use reiserfs in one of my storage server. I have not
> used reiserfs before and I am wondering how reliable it is. Any one have
> any experience with the reliability of reiserfs ? From what I can see,
> it seems to be good for faster access, but I wonder how the reliability
> is. Anyone used reiserfs before or have any experience with it ?
>
> Thank you--
> *Amit K Nepal
> Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
> omNovia Technologies Inc. <http://www.omnovia.com>
>
> <http://www.amitnepal.com>*
>
>
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