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Re: reiserfs installation



on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:02:17PM +1000, Renai LeMay (renail@ispau.net) wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2001 16:49, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > 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 ;-)

> I've been running reiserfs with 2.4.3 on a /doc partition which basically 
> houses my mp3s - so it's constantly being accessed - for a couple of weeks, 
> with no difficulties.
> 
> That's not exactly heavy useage though.

The extremely consistent response I've had from experienced linux users,
including kernel hackers (Rusty Russell, while in Canberra recently), is
"you're a brave man", which is tempered when I say "2.2".

Keep your backups current.

-- 
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