On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Fred Whipple wrote:
> RaghuNath L wrote:
> >
> > Raiserfs is very heavy like fat file system and only benifit is it does
> > not take time after power off with out propershutdown .
> >
> > it not recomended at production environment.
>
> I will have to disagree on this one...
>
> ReiserFS is a _journaling_ file system (and has other interesting
> benefits that are of use mainly to developers, not so much
> users/administrators).
>
> Noting that it "does not take time after power off without
> propershutdown" is truley an understatement. Since it is a journaling
> filesystem, it keeps a journal of file system changes before actually
> making them. What this means is if it is not cleanly unmounted, you are
> *far, far* less likely to experience file corruption. And true, because
> of the journal, it does mount very quickly after an unsafe shutdown
> which is of HUGE benefit if you have a server with a couple hundred
> gigabytes or even a couple terrabytes of data. Running e2fsck on such
> large disks could take hours.
>
> ReiserFS is also noted as quite stable at this point and worthy of
> production servers. Some distributions (SuSE comes to mind) are now
> supporting it even during installation.
>
> There are other offerings presently, including a path which adds
> journaling to ext2fs, as well as IBM's JFS. I'm not aware of their
> statuses.
>
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