On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:53:25 B. Alexander wrote: > I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. > It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the > filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any > filesystem I have encountered, it could be reduced in size. I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the filesystem to be something I am not willing to do without. I have not read the rest of the thread, but my off-the-cuff recommendation would be to start migration to btrfs. Now that the on-disk format has stabilized, I am going to start testing it for filesystems other than /usr/local, /var, and /home. Assuming I can keep those running well for 6-12 months, I will migrate /usr/local, /var, and then /home, in that order, with a 1-3 month gap in between migrations. It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained in the kernel, and btrfs is the only filesystem I have heard of that even advertises all the features I need. I've already encountered an issue related to btrfs in my very isolated deployments. The initramfs created by update-initramfs does not appear to mount it properly. Instead I am given an '(initramfs)' prompt and I have to mount the filesystem manually (a simple two-argument mount command suffices) and continue the boot process. This is fine for my laptop, but servers (and even my desktop) need to be able to boot unattended; I am still investigating the issue, which may just be due to my configuration. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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