[geeks] *DROOL*

[Mike Meredith]

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 06:46, you wrote:
> Well, some people have good luck, but others are having unbelievable
> trouble (my school wanted to use it on a WebCT server and found bugs

I've got one of those as well; have your school discovered its tendancy 
to fork bomb every so often ?

> in it that they submitted.  They got fixed, but the school was shaken
> enough to go back to ext2 for now).  Plus, the change log isn't so
> reassuring.  Rieserfs has to be really, really stable for me to

Ouch! I converted an important filesystem the other day to ReiserFS :(

I did spend some time considering whether to use it, and used it for 
several months on a backup web cache before deploying the main one. For 
a cache it's more important that the filesystem fsck's quickly than the 
data is preserved ... I've seen how long a 30Gb ext2 filesystem takes 
to fsck; I don't want to see how long it would take to fsck a 100Gb one.

> server, I intend to be moving it to NetBSD and using their software
> mirroring and their journaling equiv. system.

I'm tempted to switch my cache servers to *BSD, but the thought of the 
struggle to convince the PHB's that *another* free o/s is a wise choice 
is discouraging me.