Thread: Anyone using ReiserFS in production work? (or advise against it?)
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 stableit is? Anyone tried pulling the power plug under heavy load to find out if ReiserFS is less prone to volume corruption than ext2under these circumstances?
Re: Anyone using ReiserFS in production work? (or advise against it?)
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"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? -- Prasanth Kumar kumar1@home.com
>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? > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
"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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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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