Reiserfs question

[Dan Hollis]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Russell Coker wrote:
> When I was last using ReiserFS it was impossible to do a full fsck of a file 
> system that was mounted read-only.

fsck of r-o mounted reiserfs filesystems works fine. 

Maybe you are thinking of xfs?

> ReiserFS performed very poorly when compared to ext2/3 for writing 
> data to files a byte at a time when I last benchmarked it.  

Since reiserfs is able to fsck r-o mounted filesystems for as long as I 
can remember, you must have been testing a truly ancient reiserfs (older 
than 2001?)

-Dan