Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

[Brendan <mailinglist@endosquid.com>]

On Saturday 19 January 2008, Joe Brenner wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I
> > haven't looked into it).  If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may
> > not be able to fix the damage and loses data.
>
> I've been using resierfs for some time (including on a flaky laptop)
> and I've never seen that problem come up.

I have. Multiple times on multiple partitions. Rebooting with a disk, and 
fsck.reiserfs did the trick, but it's annoying. Switched all of my boxen to 
ext3 after that happening a few dozen times. ext3 on the same disk, for 
double the amount of time r3 was on there has never had an issue with the 
same usage.

> As for Hans Reiser's "personal problems": there are programmers
> at Namesys working on both reiser 3 and 4 while Reiser is
> unavailable.  It's hardly a reason to avoid the relatively mature
> reiser 3.

r3 is mature and only huge bug fixes go in. r4 is being worked on, but not 
rabbidly, like it used to be. 
ext3-4 are backwards compatible, so you can easily swap to 4 (but not back, 
from what I hear). You cannot do this with an "upgrade" of r3-r4.