creating one file per mail message, or how to make rm -rf take quadratic time

[zooko]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

> The problem with the Reiser family FSs is that they are
> inherently brittle. Now that they have been sufficiently
> debugged, they no longer lose data often, but if you have
> even a small unrepairable corruption, it is still more likely
> that you’ll lose half your disk instead of just a few files, as
> is the extX family’s failure mode.

How do you know this?  It doesn't seem to be implied by any of the  
papers that I referenced, but nor is it contradicted by them.  I  
would like more data.

Regards,

Zooko