Re: Virtual Device Support ("N-way mirror code")

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 13:19:31 schrieb Martin:
> Yep, ReiserFS has stood the test of time very well and I'm still using
> and abusing it still on various servers all the way from something like
> a decade ago!

Very interesting. I only used it for a short time and it worked.

But co-workers lost several ReiserFS filesystems completely.

Well, if you search for the terms corrupt and your favorite filesystem, you 
will always find hits.

Anyway, I won´t use ReiserFS 3 today for several reasons:

1) It is not yet actively developed anymore, but more in a maintenance. I know 
for some that might be a reason to use it, but I think this basically 
increases the risk of breakages instead of reducing it. That said, I didn´t 
hear of any, and also JFS is in maintenance, but appears to work as well.

2) As to my knowledge a fsck.reiserfs cannot tell the filesystem I check and 
possible ReiserFS3 filesystems in virtual machine image files on it appart, 
happily mixing them together in a huge big mess.

3) As to my knowledge mount times of large partitions can be quite long with 
ReiserFS 3.

That said, I am using BTRFS on my main laptop even for /home now after having 
used it on several other machines for more than a year. Despite from that 
wierd scrub issue that I "fixed" by redoing the filesystem, rsync backup 
appeared t be okay, I am ready to trust my data to BTRFS. Also my backup 
harddisks are BTRFS.

I like BTRFS for some reasons, two that immediately come to my mind:

1) It can prove to me that the data is intact. I find this rather valuable.

2) Due to snapshots I know have well snapshots for my backup. And even on SSD 
for my /home. I am not yet creating those in an automated way, but well I do 
use them.

Ciao,
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