Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> I agree. It's frustrating. I have RH7.1 on my K7. Out of
> the box, I can pick ext2 (ick) or reiser (ickier). Along
> with some stability problems I've heard about (in re
> reiserfs),
Well, I'm not going to touch the ReiserFS argument on "stablity,"
because that differs from user to user. But what I _can_ tell you
is that many of us rely on production NFS networks -- and test after
test, year after year, ReiserFS just takes issue with non-Linux
clients (as well as some Linux clients). Chalk it up to the
non-traditional UFS design.
*SO*, regardless of any "design superiority" that the "ReiserFS
absolutists" like to talk about, some of us *NEED* a traditional
UNIX filesystem (UFS) design like XFS. At the same time, the
features of XFS aren't too shabby either!
> it annoys me that there is no dump/restore functionality for
> that fs (an no immediate plans).
Again, it's the traditional UFS focus again. I wish Reiser and his
team on building the _future_ in filesystem design, and look forward
to the day ReiserFS does all we want. And I will admit it's great
for standalone systems or non-file server appliances *TODAY*. *BUT*
it's not going on my fileservers. I need dump, I need 100% kNFSd
compatibility, etc...
> XFS is a PITA for me, since I run win98 under win4lin (unlike
> vmware, who can run as a pure module architecture, win4lin
> requires several thousand lines of patches). Getting the XFS
> patches to co-exist with the win4lin patches has not been
> pleasant.
If my Windows app won't run under WINE, I don't need it. Plus I've
really moved to open document formats (e.g., LaTeX, SGML, XML,
etc...).
> Amen!
Seriously. I had 0 issues with pre-0.0.3 releases of Ext3 -- which
were all full-data journaling. Then when running 0.0.6, I found out
"meta-data" journaling was the default. Worse yet, using the
"data=journal" option to supposedly "force" it into full-data
journaling still did (and, in many cases, does) NOT. Pisses me
off. I'm not going Ext3 for "performance," I'm going for
"reliability." So I don't care if my performance is only cut to 75%
instead of 50% -- give me only 50% if it works flawlessly!
Now they've released 0.0.7a. I thought 0.0.6b fixed everything for
meta and only the 2.4 port was being worked on. Ack, I'll just
stick with my tried and true 0.0.2f installs!
-- TheBS
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