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From: Jim Miller <jimm@simutronics.com>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3)
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:41:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C66615.5010206@simutronics.com> (raw)

Hi everyone,

I have recently been burned by the XFS file system -- After a recent 
system crash/hang we experienced a lot of file corruption and needed to 
restore from a backup that was ~12hrs old.  It seems that XFS keeps a 
lot of journal info in memory and a sudden system crash (hang) prevents 
it from writing out the journal. 

We run a few game servers that have a large number of large and small 
files that are actively accessed (and restoring from a backup 12hrs old 
made a lot of our gamers very unhappy).  We were running EXT3 (which in 
the past recovered nicely from hangs/crashes) but performance was so bad 
we needed a new FS so 6mos ago a decision was made to go with XFS. 
I would like to switch to ReiserFS (v3) (I understand Reiser4 isn't 
quite ready for production use) and was hoping to get the warm fuzzies 
about making this decision.  I know it's much faster than ext3 but at 
this point I need to feel good about it's ability to recover from a 
sudden system hang/crash/reset.


Thanks,
Jim









             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-20  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-20  5:41 Jim Miller [this message]
2004-12-20 12:31 ` Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3) Christian Mayrhuber
2004-12-20 15:38   ` Tom Vier
2004-12-20 16:25     ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-12-20 16:32       ` Spam
2004-12-20 20:24         ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-12-20 20:31           ` Spam
2004-12-20 20:55             ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-12-20 21:26             ` Tom Vier
2004-12-20 21:34               ` Spam
2004-12-21 15:49                 ` Tom Vier
2004-12-20 19:23       ` Tom Vier
2004-12-20 20:04         ` Christian Mayrhuber
2004-12-20 17:27 ` Hans Reiser

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