[afnog] Read/Write Comparison

[Phil Regnauld]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:57:55AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> >     ReiserFS seems reliable, but behaves VERY
> >     strangely on hardware failure.
> 
> Beware: we were bitten *very* badly by ReiserFS recently at my current
> employer. Basically, once it's corrupt, you lose everything.

	I know.  I once asked Poul-Henning Kamp from FreeBSD (he wrote
	GEOM among other things) about ReiserFS, and he thought that if
	it came to a showdown on stability between UFS and ReiserFS,
	ReiserFS would lose big time on crash recovery.

> There is no
> reliable "fsck"-like tool for ReiserFS, and I understand the author freely
> admits this, because he never put any effort into developing one.

	Precisely.