Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:57:00 +0100 (BST)


> The bad (2.2 kernels)
>
> * Nothing I can think of

Security exploit according to bugtraq, but Im pretty sure it wont take Chris
Mason and friends long to fix that.

> The bad (2.4.x kernels):
>
> * Some corruption problems with various 2.4.x kernels, but
> people are reporting ext2 problems, too, so this is
> probably due at least in part to IDE/PCI chipset issues

With the latest tail fixes Im fairly sure the remaining corruptions are not
reiserfs specific - but not yet 100% confident.

> * Some corruption problems if an application
> uses an nfs-mounted reiserfs partition during
> an unexpected shutdown of the nfs server

(You want the NFS patches too)

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