[lug] journaling fs

[Alan Robertson]

"Ian S. Nelson" wrote:
> 
> llornkcor wrote:
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> > Anybody here using a journaling fs regularly? Any impressions you
> > might have on it? How about the migration to using it? Are you
> > using it on the / partition?
> 
> Here's my big compound reply..
> 
>
> 
> Overall I'm quite pleased with ReiserFS and XFS too.  Both are very
> sophisticated modern filesystems and I think both are suitable for day to day
> use and maybe even production in a limited capacity.

SuSE has used ReiserFS in production for many months now.
 
> Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> > Using ReiserFS for everything but /boot (can't easily).
> >
> > The issues include:
> >         dump/restore doesn't work
> >         kernel NFS daemon doesn't work
> 
> I think it does in the newer cuts.

I assume you mean knfsd.  It works only in limited ways.  There are inherent
limitations.  I work for SuSE who sponsored much of the work.  We like
ReiserFS, but I am 99% sure  this is the case.

> >         Can't use Tom's Root Boot, and others
> >         There is no reliable fsck, so the journalling better work right
> 
> I haven't had fsck problems, yet.. ;)

The reiser people don't recommend it ;-)
> 
> I have also made a Tom's disk that will work with ReiserFS.  

This is really cool!  Can you get Tom to buy this back?

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com