[Cialug] Corruption with ReiserFS

Stuart Thiessen sthiessen at passitonservices.org
Sat Aug 27 23:59:56 CDT 2005


Thanks!  It seems ReiserFS is the default for SUSE, so I just accepted 
it without checking it out then it messed up on me and I was quite 
surprised.  This helps!

Stuart
On Aug 27, 2005, at 20:53, James Shoemaker wrote:

> chris129 at cs.iastate.edu wrote:
>> I don't know.  I've never trusted reiser with anything more than my 
>> OS files. Personal files always go on the good old standby:  ext3.
>
> 	I agree, but my big problem with reiser was speed.  On large 
> (multi-gigabyte) streaming writes it starved interrupts from other 
> drivers.  It seemed to spend too much time in kernel mode and caused 
> interrupt loss when it flushes its buffers.
> 	This may be fixed, but once burned.
>
> 	If I switch from ext3 I will likely switch to XFS.
>
> James
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