Hans Reiser, the prominent Bay Area Linux programmer charged with murdering his wife, says he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs. In the first interview since his arrest, Reiser spoke this week about the future of his company and his legal travails from within the walls of Santa Rita Jail, where he is being held without bail.
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Member since:2005-07-06
yep.
I had it in a machine with 3 hard drives.
drive one
/dev/hda1 /boot 100mb ext2
/dev/hda5 / 20gb reiserfs
/dev/hda4 swap 1gb swap
/dev/hda3 /win 96gb vfat
drive two
/dev/hdb1 /home 160gb xfs
drive three
/dev/hdd1 /storage 80gb ext3
/dev/hdd3 /var 20gb reiserfs
there was a power failure, and when I restarted, the machine was throwing up errors on the / and /var filesystems. I used a live-cd to have a look around and could not access the / partition at all. /var was full of weird characters, but all the other filesystems held up and lost no data.
I usually use XFS if I want speed, but at the minute, using Ubuntu, I a, using ext3 on /
with data=ordered as the option.
not the fastest, but very secure.
Member since:2005-07-24
"""I am using ext3 on / with data=ordered as the option."""
And I thought you were just joking about Reiserfs trashing your machine. I'll bring the rope! ;-)
Agreed that Ext3 is rock solid. I would recommend that you actually benchmark it against other filesystems doing things that you normally do. Ext3 is quite fast. And where it is less so, the difference is not really that significant.
The exception being when there is a nasty interaction with firmware or drivers. I've heard from a couple of people who were experiencing horrid performance with a particular model of 3Ware card and ext3. XFS happened to work quite well in those scenarios.
Member since:
2005-07-05
I've been running ReiserFS for years and never had a problem. It is also faster than some of the other options.
Are you sure it was the FS?