Re: [tlug] Reiserfs: Love Gone Bad

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:31 -0400, Jim wrote:
> I've heard more sob stories about reiserfs, 
> than any other significant filesystem for Linux. 
> The general plot is that someone tries reiserfs, 
> and has serious problems (especially data loss), 
> and retreats back to a boring stable filesystem. 
Reiserfs tends to be resource intensive but fast.  This seems to make it
more sensitive to hardware problems.  The only time I have had problems
with reiserfs was on hardware that had insufficient cooling and bad
memory.  This seem to be a similar situation to a lot of the sob
stories, i.e. reiserfs was uses to squeeze a little more speed out of an
already overclocked, overtaxed system.

Edward