Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:56:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:56:01 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:24071 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:55:49 -0400 Subject: Re: ReiserFS? How reliable is it? Is this the future? To: nicholas@petreley.com (Nicholas Petreley) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:57:00 +0100 (BST) Cc: harri@synopsys.COM (Harald Dunkel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010403091955.A379@petreley.com> from "Nicholas Petreley" at Apr 03, 2001 09:19:55 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The bad (2.2 kernels) > > * Nothing I can think of Security exploit according to bugtraq, but Im pretty sure it wont take Chris Mason and friends long to fix that. > The bad (2.4.x kernels): > > * Some corruption problems with various 2.4.x kernels, but > people are reporting ext2 problems, too, so this is > probably due at least in part to IDE/PCI chipset issues With the latest tail fixes Im fairly sure the remaining corruptions are not reiserfs specific - but not yet 100% confident. > * Some corruption problems if an application > uses an nfs-mounted reiserfs partition during > an unexpected shutdown of the nfs server (You want the NFS patches too) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/