Reiserfs et al
Dec. 10th, 2005 06:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSo, as I type this entry, the raid5 on webigail is resynching. Not sure how it got OUT of sync, but that seems to be the last thing to fix before bringing the server back up. It appears that the reason it stopped booting was a minor (and trivially correctable) bit of file corruption on the main raid partition. Still this is the second time in as many weeks that we've had integrity problems with Reiserfs. I'm beginning to think that those (like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pphaneuf) who advised that it isn't ready for prime time may be right.
On the other hand, the server worked flawlessly for the two previous years, so I'm not sure if this latest glitch is really Reiser's fault. It may be that I have some sort of version skew or something in my current distribution that has introduced an instability. (I had to recently update half-a-dozen libraries in order to fix a problem, and should now upgrade everything to the same level -- I've just been waiting to have an up-to-date backup first).
Anyway, if I DO decide to junk Reiserfs in favor of something else, what should it be? Two years ago, there were stability issues with ext3 and it was a lousy performer, which is why I avoided it. I have since heard lots of good things about XFS as well, but don't know anyone who has had practical experience with it.
So, any suggestions? I would like to use a journalling filesystem, and I would like it to be fast, robust, and stable. What do folks think?
pphaneuf) who advised that it isn't ready for prime time may be right. On the other hand, the server worked flawlessly for the two previous years, so I'm not sure if this latest glitch is really Reiser's fault. It may be that I have some sort of version skew or something in my current distribution that has introduced an instability. (I had to recently update half-a-dozen libraries in order to fix a problem, and should now upgrade everything to the same level -- I've just been waiting to have an up-to-date backup first).
Anyway, if I DO decide to junk Reiserfs in favor of something else, what should it be? Two years ago, there were stability issues with ext3 and it was a lousy performer, which is why I avoided it. I have since heard lots of good things about XFS as well, but don't know anyone who has had practical experience with it.
So, any suggestions? I would like to use a journalling filesystem, and I would like it to be fast, robust, and stable. What do folks think?
