ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

[Aaron Grewell]

SuSE went Reiser early on also.  They (along with Caldera) were the ones
that released distros between the introduction of Reiser to the mainline
kernel and the introduction of ext3.  For both the journaling filesystem
was a selling point and there was only one in Linus' kernel.

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:12, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/03/02 15:19, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:32:42AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> >> > > Net Llama! wrote:
> >> > > > Another great reason to be using XFS.  ext3 is starting to look more &
> >> > > > more like a toy FS.
> >> >
> >> > XFS had its share of issues in its infancy. you're really not being fair by
> >> > comparing a relativly "new" fs with a relativly "old" one
> >> 
> >> I belive that ReiserFS is 'younger' than ext3, yet it isn't plagued by the
> >> number of flaws that ext3 has as of late.  And the age of the fs shouldn't
> >> matter.  ext3 is being put out as aa stable enterprise ready solution.
> >> There's no way that it classifies as such with such fundamental problems.
> > 
> > Hmm. I have zero problems with ext3 up to now. In fact, I've had zero
> > problems with it at all. Please pay special attention to your "as of
> > late" qualification. The problem occurred because of a bug introduced
> > extremely late in the 2.4.20-preN series. I hardly think it equitable
> > to judge a filesystem's design somehow defective because a change in 
> > its implementation exposed a developer thinko, not a design flaw. 
> > 
> > Now, if Red Hat is pushing ext3 as an "enterprise ready solution," they
> > should know better than to believe their own marketing material. ;-)
> > XFS or JFS (or AFS) are far better and more suitable for The Enterprise
> > (c). 
> 
> I'm not talking specifically about Redhat.  Name one major distro that 
> didn't ship ext3 as their first journaling FS.  Oh yea, SCOdera did push 
> Reiser early on.  I've just had countless problems with ext3, and zero 
> with XFS.
> 
> > ReiserFS had its share of major issues early on, as you yourself have
> > pointed out on this very list. I think the age of a filesystem is 
> > quite relevant. XFS has been pounded on for quite some time, giving
> > everyone the chance to expose bugs and solve them.
> 
> ReiserFS seems to have matured alot faster than ext3.