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Questions tagged [reiserfs]

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What are the differences between ext3, ext4 , ReiserFS?

And why should I pick one instead of the other?
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To what extent has ReiserFS's popularity been lessened by Hans Reiser?

How does the future look for ReiserFS? Did the trial affect its popularity much? This is a pretty subjective question, so referring to a published statistic/article would be nice.
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Centos 6.3 install reiserFS support

I'm trying to change an existing ext4 partition to reiserFS in Centos 6.3 64bit. I've updated the kernel to Centos Plus: First, I've updated /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo: In the [centosplus] section: enabled=1 includepkgs=kernel* Then I ran…
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How to convert a reiserfs partition to ext3?

Is there a tool to convert a reiserfs partition to ext3?
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upgrading ext3 fs on ubuntu 8.04

so we are stuck with this closed source system that keeps on adding folders to one directory, and it's going to hit the 32k limit soon because it's ext3. and that folder is expected to have +100k folders very soon too. it's 2.6.24-27-xen x86_64…
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Whats the best filesystem for managing millions of images?

I am designing a system capable of working with 15 million (and growing) image files ranging from 100k to 10mb. I am looking for some opinions on what may be the best filesystem to support the (somewhat) odd requirements: Additional…
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Why is reiserfs marginalized?

I've seen lots of comments suggesting that EXT3 is safer & better than reiserfs. I've been using this FS for about 4 years now and never ever had problems. Before this I used ext2 and then ext3. On ext2 I once lost ALL my files because of a…
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Alternative to ReiserFS for storing many small files in one block?

I know that ReiserFS is able to store multiple small files in a single block, and at one time was recommended for use with s3backer because of that feature, as fewer blocks to store on S3 mean lower costs. I'm looking at using s3backer in a…
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Can I resize reiserfs off of a failing LVM volume?

A while back I pulled some spare parts to set up a test for backuppc. Two largish hard drives were merged into a single volume with LVM. A few months later, it seems that the second drive is going/gone bad. Last I checked, the data I have would…
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reiserfsck on lvm

It seems like my filesystem got corrupted somehow during the last reboot of my server. I can't fsck some logical volumes anymore. The setup: root@rescue ~ # cat /mnt/rescue/etc/fstab proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 0…
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Number of inodes explodes on reiserfs after certain number is reached/quota exceeded

I am using a CentOS 7 machine as a BackupPC server to pull in backups from my two frontend servers once per night. Last night the backups failed so I checked the server to see where the problem is. During my SSH session I was confronted with error…
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Error while mounting reiser4 filesystem

I'm using Debian 6.03 (2.6.32-5-amd64) with LVM configured. For testing I created testfs logical volume and formatted it in reiser4 filesystem. But when I try: # mount /dev/lv-group/testfs /mnt it says: mount: unknown filesystem type…
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Safe filesystem for Email homedir storage? XFS? JFS? Btrfs? Reiser4?

i'm building an email system and considering some filesystem that support online-resize, safe when power-outage, and does not restrict number of files per directory(or at least can hold some millions file per directory) I want to know which…
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SUSE box hangs possibly due to Reiserfs partition issue

I've got a SUSE box with 8GB RAM and Reiserfs filesystem which has been running smoothly for over 4 years with no o/s and h/w related problems. The box serves a couple of (database driven) sites of low to moderate traffic which incurs low i/o, cpu…
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ReiserFS warning: reiserfs_get_unused_objectid: no more object ids

I've a partition in ReiserFS which stores images from a camera (so it keeps adding/removing directories with pictures...). When doing a dmesg, I get the following "warnings": [227297.192297] ReiserFS: md0: warning: reiserfs_get_unused_objectid: …
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