Re: How do I get reiserfs support in RHEL?

[Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_taroon silvennoinen net>]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 16:16 +0200, Linux Bruker wrote:
> > Is it possible to install a RHEL system with reiserfs? 
> 
> why would you want to ?

Reiserfs is superior in RHEL3 against ext3 in certain usage models.
Haven't tested RHEL4 in this regard yet. But in general, I loathe reiserfs 
because of it's crash-and-burn mentality regarding filesystem recovery. 
Witnessed plenty of people having only corrupted cruft in their disks 
after a seemingly innocent crash.

Reiserfs works wonders in a small file & high i/o environment. For example 
a mail gateway running on a SSD. If you value your data, stay away from 
reiserfs.

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  Jussi