Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> writes:

> When installing the OS I thought that  the most recent fs (reiserfs 3.6) were 
> the most secure. Actually I have reiserfs on i386 (no raid) with no problem. 
> Anyway, probably a warning against reiserfs on the installation disk or 
> manual would avoid much troubles to users and advicers.
>
> Thanks a lot
> francesco pietra

The most recent FS is generaly the one with the most unfound bugs left
and often a lot of design kinks that remain to be fixed.

Something like ext2 on the other hand has all the bugs and kinks
worked out over the years and there is very little new code that could
go wrong.

MfG
        Goswin