From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 8:19:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from asdf.dk (chewbacca.netgroup.dk [195.41.198.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3708437B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 08:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hroi@asdf.dk) Received: (from hroi@localhost) by asdf.dk (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f4MFJiq67587 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 May 2001 17:19:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hroi) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:19:44 +0200 From: Hroi Sigurdsson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010522171944.A67485@asdf.dk> References: <200105220411.f4M4BDX101825@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0A6A36.5E8EF98C@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B0A6A36.5E8EF98C@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [trimming CCs] On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > Er, I don't think ReiserFS is in the Linux kernel yet, although it is > the default filesystem on some distros apparently. I think Linus has > some reservations about the stability of the filesystem since it is > fairly new. It is in now AFAIK. > That said, it would be hard to be much worse than Ext2fs > with write cacheing enabled (default!) in the event of power failure. > We only have three Linux boxes here (and one is a PC104 with a flash > disk) and already I've had to reinstall the entire OS once when we had a > power glitch. ext2fsck managed to destroy about 1/3 of the files on the > system, in a pretty much random manner (the lib and etc were hit hard). > Heck, the system didn't even try to boot when it came back, I had to > pull FWIW, I lost two filesystems last week. One ext2 and the second reiser and no crashes/power failures were involved. The ext2 failure meant a complete reinstall (only 4-5 files where left in / after fsck). A reiser filesystem started giving input/output errors and could not be repaired with reiserfsck. Trying to back up the file system before a repair only resulted in kernel panics. -- Hroi Sigurdsson hroi@netgroup.dk Netgroup A/S http://www.netgroup.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message