Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Matthew Gardiner]

On Saturday 28 July 2001 02:55, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> > I've almost quit using reiser, because everytime I have a power outage,
> > the last 2 or three files that I've editted, even ones that I haven't
> > touched in a while, will usually be hopelessly corrupted.  The '<file>~'
> > that Emacs makes is usually fine though.   It seems to be that any open
> > file is in danger.  I don't know if this is normal, or not, but I
> > switched to XFS on several machines.  I have nothing against reiser.  I
> > assumed that these problems were due to immaturity....
> >
> >    One more thing - All my computers with Reiser as '/'  on them had a
> > disturbingly long boot time.   From the time when the Redhat startup
> > scripts began, it was.... hideously slow.   I thought nothing of it,
> > blaming bash,
>
> Don't use RedHat with ReiserFS, they screw things up so many ways.....
>
> For instance, they compile it with the wrong options set, their boot
> scripts are wrong, they just shovel software onto the CD.
>
> Use SuSE, and trust me, ReiserFS will boot faster than ext2.
>
> Actually, I am curious as to exactly how they manage to make ReiserFS boot
> longer than ext2.  Do they run fsck or what?
>
> Hans

Regards to the ReiserFS. Something more spookie, OpenLinux (no boos and 
hisses please ;) ), they have ReiserFS as a module, yet, when I have the root 
partition as reiser I have no problems, voo doo magic perhaps? because when I 
compiled 2.4.7 w/ ReiserFS as a module, the boot forks up.

Regarding the last comment, I think Redhat and Caldera have debugging enable 
(God knows why?), well, Caldera definately dones, after having a look at 
their default kernel configuration, hence, when I recompiled my kernel to 
2.4.7, threw the reiserFS into the guts of the kernel with debugging turned 
off, there was a speed increase.

Also, to speed it up, I have heard a urban myth (I am not too sure whether it 
is true), you add the tag notail. A little more disk space is used, however, 
apparently, it is meant to speed up access.

Matthew Gardiner
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