[plug] ReiserFS (was Mandrake-8)

[James Bromberger]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:04:38PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 20:49, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > I avoided ext3 as it seems too much like a patch to something that had
> > proved itself obsolete by newer designs like reiser is, not for any real
> > perceived advantage.
> 
> Ext3 fixed the one obvious lack in ext2, and did it in a minimalist way and 
> got some performance bonuses en passant. I appreciate that. ReiserFS is 
> trying too hard - but it may well succeed anyway.

Yes, the good thing about ext3 is its forward and backward compatability 
from ext2 (the 'standard' linux filesystem, as it were). The good thing 
about reiser is that it has the holy penguin pee; it is in the Linus 
Linux kernel (as opposed to the Alan Linux Kernel). So there is no patching, 
no support worries about new kernels and no new patches, etc. Its there.

I have not had any major problems. Occasionally I get mount problems 
if initrd images don't have reiserfs modules loaded, but if you set you 
system up right, it all runs smoothly. Smooth enough that the Pelican 
(www.pelicanmanufacturing.com.au) corporate server is on ReiserFS on RAID 1 
(as per my HOWTO post a month ago).

Its almost a year since I converted my personal development machine to 
have root on reiser, and its still running smoothly, not a file lost. 
I don't fear power loss now days, since I wont be stuck fscking for ages. :)


> > There's also jfs which some are touting as the *answer*
> Still a bit shakey on its feet, give it a month or two. Now that it ships in 
> Mandrake they'll be getting copious new bug reports, which will round off the 
> rough bits faster.

And if you patch Debian use the tools: jfsprogs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb. Normal 
development cycle: more people use it, more bug reports, more chance of 
mainstream kernel adoption, more bug reports, etc. IMHO, ReiserFS is in 
front, and ready for serious use. From the control file for the Deb package:

 Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney at debian.org>
 Source: jfs
 Description: Utilities for managing the JFS filesystem
  A set of commands to use the JFS filesystem, including mkfs.jfs
  .
  IBM's journaled file system technology, currently used in IBM
  enterprise servers, is designed for high-throughput server
  environments, key to running intranet and other high-performance
  e-business file servers.
  .
  Refer to the documentation at http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/
  for complete details.


Yours,
  James
-- 
 James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.james.rcpt.to

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