On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:19:10 -0600 Chris Cox <chris_cox@stercomm.com> wrote: > I have never experienced the data loss element, however, since > reiser3 does not do true data journaling, but only metadata, it is > well known fact that while reiser can bring the filesystem > integrity back to normal after a bad shutdown, some data loss > is possible. This is usually true of any metadata only journaling > filesystem. Reiser4 supposed fixes this and of course has that > whiz-bang plugins feature. Could make reiser4 the best (feature wise). > unorderly shutdowns will, even will full journaling, lead to dataloss of all data in the buffercache. Filesystem consistency is far more important, having to resore any filesystem from tape is a pita. Especially ext2 was very sensitive to unorderly shutdowns. > I certainly have nothing against JFS or AIX. I really like its ability > to dynamically grow without intervention (though that could give > some administrators a headache). AIX LVM system (even booting from a LV, though not in the most elegant fashion thinkable) is quite mature. It is one of AIX typical features I like the most (unlike smitty... ;-) -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
