From: Ian C. Sison (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 21:45:38 EDT
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, John Madden wrote:
> >> Reiserfs, as discussed here not too long ago, apparently has problems.
> >> It's also slightly slower than ext2 because of its journaling. Since
> >> it's a less-mature filesystem than ext2, and its only benefit is a
> >> faster fsck at boot (which only happens after an abnormal shutdown or
> >> a crash), I don't see why you'd want to risk it.
> >
> > Are you *REALLY* sure the *ONLY* benefit of reiserfs is the "faster
> > fsck at boot"?
>
> When it comes to a SOHO server, yeah, I'd say reiserfs isn't going to gain
> him much. Despite ext2's drawbacks (lacking journaling), I've still never
> lost a filesystem on it that wasn't related to hardware blowing up.
>
The 'faster fsck at boot' actually says a lot especially for those
consultants that had needed to nursemaid a secretary through the 'run fsck
manually' error of ext2. Not a nice situation. And for all its flaws,
the journaling of Reiser saves a lot of us the trouble.
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