Reiserfs vs ext3

[Ed Fletcher]

mark wrote:
> Matthew S-H Wrote: 
> 
>>What are the differences between reiserfs and ext3?  Like, what are the
>>advantages and disadvantages?
>>Its too late for me to reformat (probably not worth it anyway), but it
>>would be nice to know for future Ubuntu setups.
>>~Matt
> 
> a user viewpoint, I've been using ReiserFS for c. 4 months now and have
> had not a single problem.  I've done no benchmarking, but it definitely
> "feels" faster than ext3 - and during power problems we've had here in
> S. California due to the recent monsoons, my recovery experience with
> it has been excellent.
> 
> Mark

I almost hate to post this because I think I'll jinx myself.

I've been using ReiserFS v3.x.0j for four years now.  I have it on a 
software Raid 5 array using four 40 Gig disks.  (Four years ago, that 
was pretty large.)  The box is a PPro 180 and I upgraded it to Slackware 
8.0 three years ago.  uname -a gives:

Linux Sasquatch3 2.4.18 #1 Sun Mar 31 20:40:09 PST 2002 i686 unknown

I have never, ever had so much as a hiccup from the ReiserFS.  I've had 
power failures, power supply failures, boot disk failures and 
administrator brain failures.  Each time I brought the system back up, 
it ran through it's checks and I never lost even a single byte of 
information.

If I ever rebuild the array (I keep looking at those 200 Gig disks), I 
would definitely stick with ReiserFS.

Just my two cents,
Ed
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