[lug] journaling fs

[D. Stimits]

"Ian S. Nelson" wrote:
> 
> Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Is it the default yet?  Mandrake 7.x kind of hides it a little bit.  I guess
> SourceForge has a 700+ GB Reiserfs based RAID also.  I did a fair amount of hard
> time at IBM and now I'm doing embedded work and "in production" means the most
> solid thing going to me.  I couldn't give Reiserfs to a bank yet but I put it on
> my PCs...  (and as of yesterday we're planning on putting it in to an embedded
> application for mass market.  so maybe "limited capacity" isn't so limited)
> 
> > > >         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.
> 
> hmm.  I'll check my setup..  Now that I think about it, maybe I was wrong.   I was
> using NFS for a good portion of the torture testing I put reiserfs and XFS through
> though.  There are serious NFS issues that affect both and I think I may have
> avoided the kernel daemon for that very reason.  I'll look in my notes.
> FWIW, I have briefly toyed with coda exporting ReiserFS partitions and that seems
> to work.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> I contemplated it but I killed off a fair number of things from Tom's that I
> personally don't need and I assumed that went against the spirit.  (man pages, vi,
> kernel module support)  I'll send him a note.  I can also post full instructions
> if you want, it's really pretty easy.  Once you can build a Tom's disk it's just a
> matter of massaging it until it all fits.
> 
> --
> Ian S. Nelson                                           __o
> Nelson_ at attglobal.net.NOSPAM                            \<,

I'd personally be interested in anything you might have to comment on
for modifying Tom's disk for various options. Especially adding support
for all of the new journaling FS's (including ext3, although it doesn't
seem to be described as truly "journaling"). I would love to build a
custom rescue disk that has everything needed by all of my home
computers.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com