Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Announce: LVM Patch against kernel 2.3.28 | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:10:48 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Because you might disturb other folks' _data_, if reiserfs goes wonky. > It's easy to say "reiserfs is a bit too unproven for /home, but I'll > happily put my squid cache onto it", without realising
I don't think anyone is going to accidentally type "mkreiserfs" thinking mke2fs somehow. That one doesnt worry me. Don't however think you can safely test an fs on a production box just on one partition and be safe. You can be _safer_ but you should be prepared to cover the worst.
if you've got a big squid box and you can rebuild it in disaster cases then give reiserfs and ext3 a good beating. I doubt either will trash anything but ..
> Yes, but if (as has been suggested) the plan is finally to get the RAID > patches in before 2.4 (please, please, please, etc), then I reckon it's > better to delay journalling.
The 0.90 RAID has the same problem. There have been a pile of discussions involving Ingo, Hans, Stephen and others like SGI about this.
> as it is, is that the various journalling patches could live quite happily > as well-maintained external patches, just as RAID and LVM have (though > hopefull not for as long :)
I think that will happen. Adding reiserfs is one patch command. It isnt a big challenge and vendors can choose to trust it if they feel its stable even before its clean enough for Linus to accept.
Alan
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