Re: reiserfs on all my SRM-alpha drives: how I did it

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> 
> Just today, I converted the partition that I use to hold a partial Debian
> mirror to reiserfs.  I already had a reiserfs partition on my i386 (which
> also held a partial mirror) and have had nothing but good experiences with
> it, so I figured "why not?".

There could be some reasons.  Like the fact that reiserfs was _designed_
to journal only metadata.  Translated into less technical terms this
means that after an unclean shutdown your file system should survive,
and after a journal reply should be clean, but there are no guarantees
whatsoever what will be in these files.  A number of people found
out to their dismay that this is not only a theorethical possibility.

For an intended application this is not likely be a big concern
but in other situations you better check possible "gotchas" before
jumping into that as the above is not an exhaustive list.

  Michal