From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Real status of ReiserFS4? Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 13:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: <2027a1de-0aac-97f2-40f0-401e585e38ae@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=e32/Ub0YmZeWbVft7x2h8HgDq/gkSjDZI6W1daK9Y9I=; b=KfxRLeMLVp5r3nYNgPfPld3TrEG06VS8VxjaZWRPb5xQ1JXwQwdrBpPaAySvGfIuX9 YIDy5dMd09uMP1nc2nqqcinvZ0XQS1D1s8rI5z9GQ2jx1oo+kvHGAba+2ChUHoEG4g87 zQisDz9mwH5zUsAU+qpt+xucSMcTM1lBRlbJB6qpficRjZQTTYGHoODGZSiKkcYuTI3E U2Oa7QGaV1rrw3mRqtxu7BVe6h0Wc2QloP2jSZiDGcwioLLF6m6YSRwjspzqDY+a78Ad UuHwHPULVrF/CmxU60hUTd/d56y3bo4A6Ex38JVbPpPnAkol7ANaeoHTqsnCkUkv/0sB vGMA== In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ANDY KENNEDY , "'reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org'" Hello. Basically, it is stable (as of the latest stuff release). However, I would recommend reiser4 only for personal needs, not for production (corporate use). The latter requires some work to be done in active collaboration with administrators of production systems. Reiser4 has a number of open tickets/bugreports, but all of those problems are hard reproducible. Every sophisticated file system has a list of such issues, though. It is really hard to corrupt a reiser4 partition in a way that fsck will refuse to fix it. Nevertheless, I wouldn't recommend to use too large partitions. The smaller partition, the larger chances, that I'll take a look at it, if any problems with fsck. Also, keep in mind that intelligent compression (default mode) is not optimal for large media- files (see https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Reiser4_Howto for details). Reiser4 is better in all items (performance, features, implementation, maintainability, etc) than its predecessor ReiserFS(v3). Thanks, Edward. On 10/04/2017 12:29 AM, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > All, > > I've searched around on the web a bit and found various folks spouting > off about Reiser4 here and there. I am about to reinstall a system and > want to choose the right filesystem. I read some report about ReiserFS > v3 not being multi-thread safe and that ext4 ran circles around it. I > was disappointed at the hanging I was getting on ext4, so switched back > to ReiserFS and got more consistent high performance. I have a power- > house system built with a large HW Raid 5 drive and want to reformat > and repartition that sucker up. In your opinion, what is the best > filesystem to use right now? Keeping in mind that I do low-level > driver work for my company and am used to hacking around in the kernel, > so patching a kernel doesn't frighten me at all. > > It looks like Reiser4 still isn't in the mainline kernel... which is > disappointing to me that we developers also allow political > bureaucracy to shadow over potentially better solutions. So, what is > the sate of Reiser4 and should I go with that for my 16-core system, > stick with Reiser3, or grab hold to ext4? > > Thanks for your opinion in advance! > > Andy > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html