Has anyone had experience using reiser as root filesystem? Fedora does not offer to format the partition as reiser on install, however it accepts it and contain all related modules and reiserfs-utils. Since my ext3 crashed after a sudden power failure, having all its content moved to /lost+found with #xxxxxxx names (by fsck), I tried reiser and was satisfied with it. The speed seems to be a bit lower, however, having simulated 50 power failures in different circumstances, it has not failed. Furthermore, it has not corrupted any files, attributes or whatever. Each time the mount replayed last transactions and I did not even have to run long fsck test. After all I run long fsck and everything was wonderful. Kernel notes have hopeful information relating reiser: ---- Reiserfs support (REISERFS_FS) Stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a balanced tree. Uses journaling. Balanced trees are more efficient than traditional file system architectural foundations. In general, ReiserFS is as fast as ext2, but is very efficient with large directories and small files. Additional patches are needed for NFS and quotas, please see <http://www.namesys.com/> for links. It is more easily extended to have features currently found in database and keyword search systems than block allocation based file systems are. The next version will be so extended, and will support plugins consistent with our motto ``It takes more than a license to make source code open.'' Read <http://www.namesys.com/> to learn more about reiserfs. Sponsored by Threshold Networks, Emusic.com, and Bigstorage.com. If you like it, you can pay us to add new features to it that you need, buy a support contract, or pay us to port it to another OS.
