Anyone using ReiserFS in production work? (or advise against it?)

"Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net> writes:

The title says it all: Is this a foolhardy or prudent and wise move
at this time?

Has anyone run Postgres databases on ReiserFS volumes under heavy
enough load and for long enough to get a sense of how stable it is?

Anyone tried pulling the power plug under heavy load to find out if
ReiserFS is less prone to volume corruption than ext2 under these
circumstances?

I myself have NO experience with it, but I read somewhere that
sourceforge is running with it as we speak :-) They are a big Open
Source (tm) repository wth CVS and other access, so it is presumably
pretty robust.

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From: "Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net>
Reply-To: "Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net>
To: "PostgreSQL General" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: [GENERAL] Anyone using ReiserFS in production work? (or advise
against it?)
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:02:17 -0700

The title says it all: Is this a foolhardy or prudent and wise move at this
time?

Has anyone run Postgres databases on ReiserFS volumes under heavy enough
load and for long enough to get a sense of how stable it is?

Anyone tried pulling the power plug under heavy load to find out if
ReiserFS is less prone to volume corruption than ext2 under these
circumstances?

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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 felix@crowfix.com wrote:

"Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net> writes:

The title says it all: Is this a foolhardy or prudent and wise move
at this time?

Has anyone run Postgres databases on ReiserFS volumes under heavy
enough load and for long enough to get a sense of how stable it is?

Not very heavy load, but for long enough time.

Anyone tried pulling the power plug under heavy load to find out if
ReiserFS is less prone to volume corruption than ext2 under these
circumstances?

Less. I never had "bad" corruption with reiser. On other hand, I never had
'bad' corruption with ext2 either. ;) But theoretically, its possible with
ext2 and avoidable with reiser.

"Randall" == Randall Parker <randall@nls.net> writes:

Randall> The title says it all: Is this a foolhardy or prudent and
Randall> wise move at this time? Has anyone run Postgres
Randall> databases on ReiserFS volumes under heavy enough load and
Randall> for long enough to get a sense of how stable it is?

Well, not in production yet, but on my machine running a copy of our
message switch on a reiser partition. I currently have a "stuck on
TLB" (if I remember the error correctly) but this is not reiser
specific (and a patch exists which I have to try when I get time).

Randall> Anyone tried pulling the power plug under heavy load to
Randall> find out if ReiserFS is less prone to volume corruption
Randall> than ext2 under these circumstances?

Hmm, pulling plug, no, but the machine has hung up 2 or 3 times while
trying out pre versions of 2.2 Linux and has come up without any
problems.

We have just ordered 2 new servers and I am going to put reiserfs and
RAID through its paces, try pulling a disk while running, pulling the
power, etc. to get a good idea of what can go wrong and whats needed
to fix it.

I suggest you try something similar before going to production.

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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