From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 00:32:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C2716A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:32:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D136843D5C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:32:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D273E9A; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:32:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1263.193.231.237.171.1135037978.squirrel@dummy-host.example.com> References: <1263.193.231.237.171.1135037978.squirrel@dummy-host.example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:32:11 -0500 To: petre@kgb.ro X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Native" journaling file systems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:32:15 -0000 On Dec 19, 2005, at 7:19 , petre@kgb.ro wrote: >> On 2005-12-19 10:28, Justin Smith wrote: >> I've used several journaling file systems in Linux and like the >> Reiser >> FS except for one MAJOR drawback: When something goes wrong, >> reiser-fsck >> absolutely sucks at repairing things (Hans Reiser freely admits >> that but >> says it's never needed because nothing ever goes wrong). > > hmmm, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree solved my problems twice; or was it > pure > luck ? ;) There are versions of reiserfs that are fairly stable (many of them in SuSE Linux releases, with a boatload of patches to make them stable) --- but I don't like what I've been hearing and seeing with the new version, and we've scrapped it in our production Linux environment in favor of ext3 (temporarily) and xfs (in progress). (No production FreeBSD: we absolutely *need* AFS clients, and none of us is enough of a kernel-level hacker to make OpenAFS or Arla sufficiently stable. *grumble*) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH