Re: Is Reiserfs better than ext3

[Oliver Jones]

Speaking of FS corruption.  In the past I've had corruption occur with Reiser FS for no readily apparent reason.  I've never had the same thing happen with ext2.  And until recently I've never had it happen with ext3.  Recently though I did have a workstation corrupt it's ext3 /usr/bin director.  No idea why either.  So I don't think any system is completely immune but I do trust code with a ext2 heritage more than pretty much any other Linux FS.

Regards

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 03:46, Craig Ringer wrote:

Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
> I am having around 2000 users on my cyrus server ( redhat 9.0 ) 
> someone told be I should reformat my partition in Reiserfs rather that
> ext3 and I will get a great perlformance improvement

I noticed a significant performance improvement when moving from ext3 to 
reiserfs, and consider it well worth it. That said, reiserfs doesn't 
play especially well with LVM snapshots, so there's a significant 
downside. Some people swear by XFS - and it /does/ work brilliantly with 
LVM - but there have been reports of unreliability and FS corruption.

Craig Ringer

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