3 engineers on Hacker News describe using ReiserFS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I actually tested and had survive some power outages totally fine too.”
endorse · personal · tharkun__ · 2026-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It worked well on email server loads, and could delete 1 million files in a directory in under 1 second.”
endorse · production · redis_mlc · 2020-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on a system that used reiserfs in production and we were always dealing with problems caused by the weak reliability guarantees.”
regret · production · PaulHoule · 2012-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?