Re: [Cooker] We want ext3 in cooker...

[James A. Sutherland]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, Jason Straight wrote:
> reiser choked on my 200gb raid 0 3 times in 2 days,

If that was software RAID, that's a known problem: ReiserFS and software
RAID both change part of the kernel, and they don't play nicely together
yet.

> switched to ext2 and it's 100% stable now,

Of course. ext2 isn't journalled, so it doesn't trigger the known problems
with the current RAID code.

> also reiser seems to not support quota

Quota support needs an extra patch, available from the WWW site.

> nor file attributes with chattr.

Of course not. File attributes are ext2, so ReiserFS isn't supposed to
support them. You'll find them missing from NFS, coda and devfs too :)


James.