From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Miller Subject: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:41:41 -0600 Message-ID: <41C66615.5010206@simutronics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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