On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Russell Coker wrote: > When I was last using ReiserFS it was impossible to do a full fsck of a file > system that was mounted read-only. fsck of r-o mounted reiserfs filesystems works fine. Maybe you are thinking of xfs? > ReiserFS performed very poorly when compared to ext2/3 for writing > data to files a byte at a time when I last benchmarked it. Since reiserfs is able to fsck r-o mounted filesystems for as long as I can remember, you must have been testing a truly ancient reiserfs (older than 2001?) -Dan