reiserfs & LVM 1

[nix45]

Has anyone used LVM with reiserfs filesystems on a RHEL AS 2.1 production system before? I've done this before on a few non-critical production servers and haven't had any problems. I want to implement this on our mission critical ERP system now, and I was wondering if anyone is using this currently? I'm asking because Red Hat still considers reiserfs experimental for some reason. The reason for using reiserfs over ext3 is because LVM logical volumes formatted with reiserfs can be dynamically resized on the fly. With ext3, you have to unmount the LV, resize it, and then remount it.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[jrjuiliano]

So far I've still seen posts on other boards mentioning that they've had data corruption using reiserfs with or without using LVM.

XFS seems to be the same case.

At this point it appears that the most followed FS is still ext3, since it still journals and is stable.

Sorry I couldn't help out more, but my experience with reiserfs at this point is minimal. I have my root partition running it on a test box and so far it seems to do well, handling the smaller files like it was designed to.

J.R.

 

[nix45]

I think your right, and it isn't worth risking using reiserfs just so that I can dynamically resize partitions. I'll go with ext3 until reiserfs is stable enough to use in a production system.

Anyone know why reiserfs is considered experimental in Red Hat, but is the default filesystem in SuSE?

Thanks for your help,
Chris

 

[mattjurado]

We've been using reiserfs on our suse boxes for a couple years now, and have had no problems. It responds very well after power outages (excellent transaction tracking which is faster than any other file system I've seen), and we've put out at least 30 servers with that file system. Not to mention its what we use on our own file & web servers. Red Hat has done some odd proprietary changes to its software, so we've moved away from them. But reiserfs works fine in Red Hat too. Red Hat has made a big push for ext3, that's why its probably the most widely used for red hat. However, looking at the Linux community is a whole, reiserfs has a much longer track record. Ext3 should do fine for you, reiserfs is just my preference...

My 2 cents...

Matt J.

 

[appi]

Hi all,

I agree with Matt. We just tested a suse-box (8.2 and SLES8) with reiserfs on LVM and I could not break it down with resizing. Even a reinstall hold the installed data if you choose the same LV-Names and do not format the LV's.
I think reiserfs is even stable to use in suse. But we've no expierience with RH

regards
Uwe