[CVALE] The Verdict is.... ( was Re: hans reiser on 20/20)

[Ian Sterling]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Look, it's not like reiserfs was all that in the first place.
>  The idea to layer the filesystem on top of an object database
>  is very attractive because of its performance implications.
>  You get constant creation times, instant delete. Data transfer,
>  however, is governed by the design of the underlying database
>  (e.g. if it has extents). And in bargain you receive a terrible
>  reliability. One bad block in the right place, and huge chunks
>  of the file system become inaccessible, because it has no
>  redundancy of any kind.

I lost a /usr filesystem because of that.  Tried to backup my data,
and the bloody system backed it up in 8.3 format.  I lost everything.
:-/

Yeah, one foul-up was all it took for me to stop using reiserfs.  Ext3
for me now.

--Ian...