Submission + - Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement?
paulkoan writes: "I have been using ReiserFS for my file system across a few servers for some time now. I initially chose it because I was building a mythtv system and it was the recommended fs across the board, from small to large files.
I have had good experiences with ReiserFS and it has had a pummelling. That mythtv box for example has a very volatile environment and loses power on a regular basis. I haven't lost any data through any of these outages. Compare this to my brief foray into xfs on the same box, where 25% of the filesystem ended up in lost+found with numbers for filenames. When this happened a second time on a different system I decided xfs wasn't for me — and I really don't get the point of a journalled filesystem that will keep data relatively safe, but then remove any means to identify it when things go wrong.
But everyone has good and bad experiences with filesystems, reiserfs included. xfs gets a good wrap, my experience aside.
So my criteria are: in-kernel support, shrinkable and has good recovery when the file system is not closed properly. That shrinkable requirement discards a lot of options.
And why? I cannot foresee the future of reiserfs, but if I am going to have to migrate as support diminishes, I'd like to begin that process now. What is good replacement?"
I have had good experiences with ReiserFS and it has had a pummelling. That mythtv box for example has a very volatile environment and loses power on a regular basis. I haven't lost any data through any of these outages. Compare this to my brief foray into xfs on the same box, where 25% of the filesystem ended up in lost+found with numbers for filenames. When this happened a second time on a different system I decided xfs wasn't for me — and I really don't get the point of a journalled filesystem that will keep data relatively safe, but then remove any means to identify it when things go wrong.
But everyone has good and bad experiences with filesystems, reiserfs included. xfs gets a good wrap, my experience aside.
So my criteria are: in-kernel support, shrinkable and has good recovery when the file system is not closed properly. That shrinkable requirement discards a lot of options.
And why? I cannot foresee the future of reiserfs, but if I am going to have to migrate as support diminishes, I'd like to begin that process now. What is good replacement?"
