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Re: reiserfs installation



on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:47:06PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> > Renai LeMay wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very
> > > impressed with it's performance.
> > 
> > It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-)
> 
> not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you
> WILL need to fsck it, and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks.  

My understanding is that most current reiserfs issues involve 2.4
kernels.  ReiserFS under 2.2.18+ is pretty stable.  2.4 is not
recommended unless you're involved in reiserfs development or hate
yourself (or the "friend" whose system you're configuring ;-)

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