RE: fsfs and Linux filesystems

Backups. Yes. Very good idea. Also, be sure to do a practice restore once in a while to be sure your backups are accurate. There's nothing worse than discovering that the past year of your backups are useless.

And just to throw my hat into the Linux filesystem fray, I run Slackware at home, using whatever version of ReiserFS they default to, and it's been running great for a year. Of course, I don't run a high volume source control database at home, just a low volume Tivo HMO server. ;)

Some of the uber-nerds I know swear by XFS, which excels in cases where you have lots of files and many transactions. It's very solid and has been around (at least internally to SGI) for a long time.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Haisenko [mailto:haisenko@webport.de]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:22 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: Michael Muller
Subject: Re: fsfs and Linux filesystems

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 03:34, Michael Muller wrote:
> I don't wish to spread FUD, but I feel obliged to offer my own anecdotal
> evidence: I recently was running Debian on a really old laptop and started
> having regular filesystem meltdowns on Reiser which I assumed to be related
> to the hardware finally becoming unstable. But then I switched over to
> ext3 and never had the problem again.
>
> Again, this could very well have been the hardware. And I have since
> ditched that system for a shiny new Thinkpad, so it's not like I had ext3
> running for months. Still, this experience left a bad taste in my mouth
> and I am somewhat reluctant to use Reiser again.

Let's just agree on: backups matter ! ;-)

--
Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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