From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:58530 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758788Ab3EWQIh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2013 12:08:37 -0400 From: Martin Steigerwald To: Martin Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Virtual Device Support ("N-way mirror code") Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:08:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1823670.hMFQUu2mCu@merkaba> In-Reply-To: References: <518CFE3A.3080900@chinilu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 13:19:31 schrieb Martin: > Yep, ReiserFS has stood the test of time very well and I'm still using > and abusing it still on various servers all the way from something like > a decade ago! Very interesting. I only used it for a short time and it worked. But co-workers lost several ReiserFS filesystems completely. Well, if you search for the terms corrupt and your favorite filesystem, you will always find hits. Anyway, I wonīt use ReiserFS 3 today for several reasons: 1) It is not yet actively developed anymore, but more in a maintenance. I know for some that might be a reason to use it, but I think this basically increases the risk of breakages instead of reducing it. That said, I didnīt hear of any, and also JFS is in maintenance, but appears to work as well. 2) As to my knowledge a fsck.reiserfs cannot tell the filesystem I check and possible ReiserFS3 filesystems in virtual machine image files on it appart, happily mixing them together in a huge big mess. 3) As to my knowledge mount times of large partitions can be quite long with ReiserFS 3. That said, I am using BTRFS on my main laptop even for /home now after having used it on several other machines for more than a year. Despite from that wierd scrub issue that I "fixed" by redoing the filesystem, rsync backup appeared t be okay, I am ready to trust my data to BTRFS. Also my backup harddisks are BTRFS. I like BTRFS for some reasons, two that immediately come to my mind: 1) It can prove to me that the data is intact. I find this rather valuable. 2) Due to snapshots I know have well snapshots for my backup. And even on SSD for my /home. I am not yet creating those in an automated way, but well I do use them. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7