Hello. Basically, it is stable (as of the latest stuff release). However, I would recommend reiser4 only for personal needs, not for production (corporate use). The latter requires some work to be done in active collaboration with administrators of production systems. Reiser4 has a number of open tickets/bugreports, but all of those problems are hard reproducible. Every sophisticated file system has a list of such issues, though. It is really hard to corrupt a reiser4 partition in a way that fsck will refuse to fix it. Nevertheless, I wouldn't recommend to use too large partitions. The smaller partition, the larger chances, that I'll take a look at it, if any problems with fsck. Also, keep in mind that intelligent compression (default mode) is not optimal for large media- files (see https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Reiser4_Howto for details). Reiser4 is better in all items (performance, features, implementation, maintainability, etc) than its predecessor ReiserFS(v3). Thanks, Edward. On 10/04/2017 12:29 AM, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
All, I've searched around on the web a bit and found various folks spouting off about Reiser4 here and there. I am about to reinstall a system and want to choose the right filesystem. I read some report about ReiserFS v3 not being multi-thread safe and that ext4 ran circles around it. I was disappointed at the hanging I was getting on ext4, so switched back to ReiserFS and got more consistent high performance. I have a power- house system built with a large HW Raid 5 drive and want to reformat and repartition that sucker up. In your opinion, what is the best filesystem to use right now? Keeping in mind that I do low-level driver work for my company and am used to hacking around in the kernel, so patching a kernel doesn't frighten me at all. It looks like Reiser4 still isn't in the mainline kernel... which is disappointing to me that we developers also allow political bureaucracy to shadow over potentially better solutions. So, what is the sate of Reiser4 and should I go with that for my 16-core system, stick with Reiser3, or grab hold to ext4? Thanks for your opinion in advance! Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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