[Cialug] Corruption with ReiserFS

[James Shoemaker]

dave at visionary.com wrote:

> I've had really good luck with reiserfs.
> 
> I think it's only fair to note that James is talking about a fairly
> extreme case, where he's (IIRC) ripping video from a DV camera which
> creates huge files. For the average user reiserfs is going to give you
> better performance than ext3.

	Could be, but when a file system that has EXTREMELY sub-optimal 
performance in a corner case I get worried about the design.  I agree 
that my situation was a corner case, but a properly designed filesystem 
should be able to avoid such a poor response to that situation, ext2 and 
ext3 did.
	They note that the issue still exists in their FAQ:

Why do things freeze on my IDE hard drive for annoying amounts of time
     Because when large writes are scheduled all at once, reads can 
starve. A fix for this is evolving; the later your ReiserFS patch, the 
better we handle this.

	Could be that it is fixed, but I would bet not.  They have had this 
note in the FAQ for over 5 years and I would assume the comment would 
change once they fix it.

James