choosing a file system

[Scott Likens]

Ah the saga of Hans Reiser.  That unfortunately is the Downfall of  
Reiserfs.

Yes, his company has disappeared, and a "void" has appeared from his  
lack of presence?

However, the Reiserfs4 patch set is current against the linux kernel  
2.6.28 (see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/edward/reiser4/reiser4-for-2.6/)

However I think that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4) pretty  
much sums up the future of Reiserfs4.

... However I haven't really run into show stopping bugs on Reiserfs3  
in quite some time (with excellent hardware).  However you replace it  
with dodgy hardware and things change.

I haven't looked at btrfs yet with Cyrus, perhaps I'll do that  
sometime soon.


On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Janne Peltonen wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:58:57AM -0800, Scott Likens wrote:
>> I would not discount using reiserfs (v3) by any means.  It's still  
>> by far a
>> better choice for a filesystem with Cyrus then Ext3 or Ext4.  I  
>> haven't really
>> seen anyone do any tests with Ext4, but I imagine it should be  
>> about par for
>> the course for Ext3.
>
> There are /lots/ of (comparative) tests done: The most recent I could
> find with a quick Google is here:
>
>  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks
>
> The problem with reiserfs is... well. The developers have explicitely
> stated that the development of v3 has come to its end, and there was  
> the
> long argument between Hans Reiser and kernel delevopers about  
> whether v4
> could be included in kernel. When Hans Reiser was charged with murder
> (not the crow or Cyrus variant), his company assured that the
> development (of v4) would continue, but the last time I tried to find
> out anything about the project, it appeared more or less dead. Of
> course, the current reiserfs (v3) is very stable, but if you run into
> any issues, there really isn't a developer you can contact (or send
> patches to, if you figure out the bug).
>
>
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