reiserfs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:23:48PM -0400, Dave Bour wrote:
> What does one call a large file system. 
> 
> I've 2 3TB systems running on adaptec hardware raid cards, with lvm2 running reiserfs3 on top of that. Hiccup every 3 - 4 months and I know I got to change but the question is to what
> 
> And the cost of another raid setup not to mention insufficient power too during the cutover is the next item to contend with

I know I changed from reiserfs3 to ext3 on every system I dealt with a
few years ago due to problems with reiserfs3.  I tried XFS a couple of
years ago, but ended up having to convert that to ext3 as well due to
XFS bugs in 2.6.1-10ish range.  I gave up waiting for someone to fix
whatever was cousing corruption and out of memory errors and hangs and
all that.  I think it may have been tracked down by now as having had to
do with the size of allocations xfs does in some cases being larger than
one page of ram, causing severe memory fragmentation in the kernel and
evenrually making it unable to get a single block the size it wanted.  I
think they no longer allocate large chunks of memory that way in XFS.
Unfortunately that turned me of using XFS for a while.  I have not tried
JFS yet.  ext3 works for me though, even if it isn't the fastest or
anything.  It works, it does ACL, works with NFS, and doesn't seem to
break, and if it does have a problem, fsck actually works reliably on
ext3 unlike some filesystems I have tried.

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