[Gllug] Nightmare

[tet at accucard.com]

>I would bet Reiser against _any_ of the others, simply because it has
>been tested way more. More, by light years. Even last week someone
>found a bug in ext3 that oopsed kernels, and ext3 isn't quite as
>hardcore as Reiserfs.

By the same logic, there were two kernel oopsing bugs found in
reiserfs last week. That doesn't particularly mean anything, other
than that perhaps neither are fully ready for a production environment
yet. My objection mostly comes down to the attitudes of those
involved. I trust Stephen Tweedie, and I don't trust Hans Reiser. Look
at any LKML archive if you want to know why. The *impression* I get
is that ext3 has been well designed from the start, whereas reiserfs
is a good idea that hasn't been properly thought out before they
started coding. It seems that they're having to spend a lot of time
firefighting, which ext3 doesn't seem to be doing. Maybe my impressions
are wrong, but I'm not about to bet my production systems on it...

>JFS and XFS I would trust even less - I wouldn't be surprised if they
>have large bugs wriggling around inside them.

True, but remember both of those have come from mature codebases. Yes,
the port to Linux will have involved changes which will have inevitably
caused bugs, but I'd still feel more comfortable with either of those
than I would with reiserfs. Just MHO.

Tet

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