Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:10:40 -0400 Received: from zipmail.com ([207.88.19.245]:61080 "EHLO zipmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3B61AE96.5030909@firein.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:10:30 -0400 From: Dustin Byford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010608 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: Joshua Schmidlkofer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption In-Reply-To: <0107270926070B.06707@widmers.oce.srci.oce.int> <3B618CF2.5C105903@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Hans Reiser wrote: > Maybe somebody else who is using both ReiserFS and RedHat's boot scripts can comment on whether > things are slow for them and if so, where they get slow. For what it's worth I just configured a RedHat 7.1 box with reiserfs on all partitions except /boot using this update disk ftp://139.82.28.40/pub/update-rh71reiser-v1.img from http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/. Upgraded all of redhat's packages, note there is a SysVinit update and a gcc update. Compiled a 2.4.7-pre kernel and the latest reiserfsprogs. Mounted /boot read only to eliminate the chance of an fsck required on that partition. I have been running reiserfs on a mail server with about 60k accounts (30k really active) for about 6 months. I haven't experienced any problems with the filesystems. The one I just configured is its intended replacment. After a few days of testing with bonnie, some perl scripts I wrote, and a few pullings of the power cord I think it's almost ready for production. An upgrade to 2.4.7 and some more testing will tell. If you pull the plug on this machine it takes around 40 seconds to get back to the login prompt, (p3-600 60G ide drive). Including the act of pulling the power cord, bios delays, lilo delays, and the rest of the redhat boot sequence. So, in my experience I've had very few problems with reiserfs and redhat. That said, the slightest hint of data corruption under normal (continuous power, no failing hardware) operation and I'll probably be evaluating other filesystems. There are sometimes as many as 500,000 files on this filesystem, reiserfs seems to do a good job under my conditions. --Dustin Also, one purely cosmetic patch to rc.sysinit if you want: --- rc.sysinit.orig Fri Jul 27 13:06:58 2001 +++ rc.sysinit Fri Jul 27 13:38:25 2001 @@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ _RUN_QUOTACHECK=0 ROOTFSTYPE=`grep " / " /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $3 }'` -if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" ]; then +if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" \ + -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "reiserfs" ]; then STRING=$"Checking root filesystem" echo $STRING - 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/