I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and
causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a
different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware.
With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems.
Hardware was repaired, and ReiserFS rides again.
This summer :
Coming back from vacation, looking at the logs, I saw that the cupboard
router-server had kernel-panicked almost daily and rebooted itself
automatically. I also had a lot of corrupted BitTorrent downloads. I could
have blamed reiserfs, or bittorrent. But instead, I opened the case and
found the CPU was overheating due to the fan being clogged by an
unbelievable amount of accumulated dust and crap.
reiserfs was still happy, I ran a fsck just to be sure, no errors. fhew.
I wonder how it's possible. Given the state of the CPU fan, everything
should have been wiped out.
I have an all-reiser4 laptop (except /boot) and it's great. No problems
whatsoever, it flies. Pentium-M kicks ass.
My jukebox PC is half reiser3 and (since a few months) half reiser4,
running fine, on the cheapest possible motherboard, and the no-name RAM,
with an underclocked Duron. The hardware is so bad I had to underclock the
PC133 to PC100. It has never crashed in 4 years, or got any data
corruption. Crap hardware is actually sometimes pretty good if you
underclock it (just have to get lucky). With windows, it used to
bluescreen just by plugging a cable in the ethernet port.
My server is all reiser3 too.
I could have used other filesystems but reiserfs Just Works. No horror
stories to tell, sorry. I like reiserfs.
I don't care it there were very old versions that crashed. I don't care
about Linux 2.0 or 1 either. Or Netscape 2. That's the past now.
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