Re: UFS filesystem size limit

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Csanady wrote:
> > I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the
> > resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete.
>  
> Was this on an ATA disc by chance?  I imagine that this sort of file
> system would be extremely fragile with write caching.  That aside, I
> don't see why (in theory) the filesystem should be any more susceptible
> to damage than similar systems without fixed-location metadata.

ATA disk (Raidzone box, if you're familiar with them).  As near as I 
could tell, it is (was?) just QoI issues with Reiser.

We also had horrible issues with FlexLM and Reiser (as in "FlexLM won't 
run when you have / mounted on a ReiserFS volume") at Cadence.  Nobody 
could ever figure out why.  Thankfully, we didn't have to try to support 
such a configuration (license manager bugs were nightmares for users and 
developers alike).