[NTLUG:Discuss] Time to switch away from ReiserFS?

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Ralph wrote:
>> Chris,
>>   I don't doubt this at all.  I just setup my first OpenSuse 11 system
>> tonight and used Reiser.  But, I expect Reiser usage to be affected
>> because most people have no idea who is doing the development.  But,
>> most people may not have heard the news or associate it with a Linux
>> filesystem, so who knows.  Have you switched away from Reiser as your
>> default?
> 
> Actually, reiserfs development has been turned over to kernel.org
> and the owner is Edward Shishkin (and many others helping).
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/18/390
> 
> I can't switch over from reiserfs, there is NO equivalent today,
> at least not for true enterprise development.  XFS might qualify,
> just had some nasty bugs not terribly long ago (I'm skiddish).
> 
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Hope this doesn't open a can of worms but, what is it about reiserfs
that makes it suitable for true enterprise deployment where no other
file system is?

While we are on the subject, from what I've heard ext3 journals both
metadata and data while the other file systems don't.  Why is this?