add praise of reiser3

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zooko 2008-11-09 14:43:39 +00:00
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@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ isn't as fast as Rizzo's implementation, but the tutorial is nice.
[eXplode: A lightweight, general approach for finding serious errors in storage systems](https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/explode-osdi06.pdf), a follow-on by the authors of "Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors", compares ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs, xfs, msdos, vfat, hfs, and hfs+ to see if you sync them and then crash them if your allegedly synced data is actually recoverable (impatient: page 11) [eXplode: A lightweight, general approach for finding serious errors in storage systems](https://www.stanford.edu/~engler/explode-osdi06.pdf), a follow-on by the authors of "Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors", compares ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs, xfs, msdos, vfat, hfs, and hfs+ to see if you sync them and then crash them if your allegedly synced data is actually recoverable (impatient: page 11)
(Summary: basically it looks to me (Zooko) like reiser3 is better-engineered for handling faults than are the other local filesystems. See also the recent revelation that ext3 has been running with write barriers turned off all this time: <http://lwn.net/Articles/283161> .)
## P2P / Distributed Systems / Decentralization ## P2P / Distributed Systems / Decentralization
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