:Linux and Open Source Blog: SUSE 10.2 Ditching ReiserFS as its Default FS
Linux and Open Source Blog: SUSE 10.2 Ditching ReiserFS as its Default FS Oct 3, 2006, 13 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (9491 reads)
"We've been using ReiserFS as our default installation file system for the last 6-7 years now, and it's served us well in that time. Unfortunately, there are a number of problems with it, some purely technical, some more related to maintenance. I'll outline a few of the larger issues and offer my solution as a conclusion.
"ReiserFS has serious scalability problems. David Chinner's talk at OLS really underscored the problem well for a single, large, high bandwidth file system. While I realize that XFS-style scalability isn't a real goal for most users, and isn't a target workload for reiserfs, the scalability problems are real..."
