Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:19:44 +0200 From: Hroi Sigurdsson <hroi@asdf.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010522171944.A67485@asdf.dk> In-Reply-To: <3B0A6A36.5E8EF98C@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400 References: <200105220411.f4M4BDX101825@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0A6A36.5E8EF98C@mitre.org>
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[trimming CCs] On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Er, I don't think ReiserFS is in the Linux kernel yet, although it is > the default filesystem on some distros apparently. I think Linus has > some reservations about the stability of the filesystem since it is > fairly new. It is in now AFAIK. > That said, it would be hard to be much worse than Ext2fs > with write cacheing enabled (default!) in the event of power failure. > We only have three Linux boxes here (and one is a PC104 with a flash > disk) and already I've had to reinstall the entire OS once when we had a > power glitch. ext2fsck managed to destroy about 1/3 of the files on the > system, in a pretty much random manner (the lib and etc were hit hard). > Heck, the system didn't even try to boot when it came back, I had to > pull FWIW, I lost two filesystems last week. One ext2 and the second reiser and no crashes/power failures were involved. The ext2 failure meant a complete reinstall (only 4-5 files where left in / after fsck). A reiser filesystem started giving input/output errors and could not be repaired with reiserfsck. Trying to back up the file system before a repair only resulted in kernel panics. -- Hroi Sigurdsson hroi@netgroup.dk Netgroup A/S http://www.netgroup.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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