Re: [tlug] Reiserfs: Love Gone Bad (was LVM groks JFS and XFS)

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Jim wrote:
> Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > ... a recent bad bout with reiserfs has turned me off to reiserfs.
> >     
>
> That's prudent. 
> There is a vague hazy pall around reiserfs about data loss. 
>
> How were you jilted? Data loss? 
>
>   
   I formatted a USB HDD using ReiserFS and no matter what I tried it 
just would not mount at all.  fsck said it was okay.  I was able to even 
run the ReiserFS tests against it but it just refused to mount period.  
I can't remember what the root cause was but since we needed the drive 
to perform some backups, a non-mountable drive was rather useless.
   I ended up trying ext3 and xfs on the HDD just to make sure the HDD 
was not  defective and those worked just fine.  I tried ReiserFS once 
more and it still refused.   I ended making the HDD xfs and  never 
looked back at ReiserFS.  Perhaps there are plenty of people who have 
ReiserFS working happy for them but 'It's Not Working For Me'.

   I tried to drink the kool-aid but the bottle wouldn't open!  Maybe 
I'll try again in a couple of years after 2.6 becomes stable  :)


Cheers,
Alain