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Drop .. no drop... it probably doesn't matter
The fact is that everyone is encouraged to move away from reiserfs because it lacks a true maintainer as far as I know.
For those that didn't trust reiserfs, I will say this, Jeff M. did a good job of making patches for SuSE/SUSE... and so it was really the only platform for reiserfs IMHO, but given it was the only enteprise distro with journaled filesystem and lvm for such a long time, etc., etc. The SUSE folks made reiserfs work and work even better by adding extended attributes and the like... good job. But alas, that support ended some time ago.
Reiserfs is much more of a complex data structure written to disk and therefore bad sectors did tend to make things quite bad. But one could argue that a bad sector in the right place on ext3/4 does equally as bad things (could even be worse), it's just easier to hit a bad place with reiserfs. As long as the disks were good and you didn't cut power, reiserfs has been very stable. But again, on an distro (like Red Hat, for example) where there is disdain for the filesystem, sure... stay as far away from their implementation as possible (unpatched, uncared for, etc...).
I've certainly seen my share of weird anomalies with ext2/3/4.... and at least with reiserfs, I could to a rebuildtree and usually get everything back... can't say the same for the others. But in all fairness to compare ext2/3/4 to reiserfs is very much apples to oranges. While a few nice features like extents made it in... those filesystems still show their ancient (and I mean that in a fuddy duddy way) roots.
So... love reiserfs, hate reiserfs, the fact is, without good maintenance, it has to die... that's just the way it is. Sure, the kernel devs can keep it limping along, but eventually, it's going to rot.
Who knows, maybe Reiser4 will be the "answer"?
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Originally posted by cjcox View PostWho knows, maybe Reiser4 will be the "answer"?
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I understand dropping it from the installer and even from grub and the default kernel image.
But for backwards compatibility it should remain as an installable extra module. I still have old disks with reiserfs on them, and being able to plug them and have them work 5-10 years from now is an important feature.
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Originally posted by stevenc View PostReiserFS (v3) on Linux served me faithfully for something like 10 years with acceptable perfromance and never losing a byte. Since the Big Kernel Lock changes after 2.6.32 it was made unstable and this still hasn't been fixed. And btrfs ate a server full of data the first and last time I tried it. So now to new old things: ZFS for me.
Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET
FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are interested in
testing Btrfs with non-critical data.
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