as far as eide hard drives.... is there not a bios
setting to control that?
--- Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Nima S. Panahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have had mixed results. I tried to keep my mouth
> shut during the whole
> > thread, but I can't any longer. I experimented
> with Reiser since 7.2. All
> > it did was each my paritions and I think the VIA
> bug has something to do
> > with it. But this was not a rare occation, it ate
> my /home and /var
> > multiple times and on different machines (all
> three had some VIA chipset
> > as I only use AMD). Then, the newer Reiser version
> cameout and changing
> > the paritions to those helped but I still saw
> problems where it reported a
> > directory to have 2 gigs of data in it when I only
> had 400 megs!
> > I must have been smoking something, because for my
> server, I went all
> > ReiserFS with the latest 8.0. I was doing a switch
> from the old server to
> > a new one and in the excitement I forgot about my
> ReiserFS problems. I
> > almost switch back as soon as I realized what I
> had done. However, I just
> > bited down and did regular backups waiting for
> when it went south. IT
> > NEVER DID! I hope I am not talking too soon, but
> for a few months it has
> > been running w/o any problems. I would still waite
> for it to mature more
> > or use XFS, which I have used in many of my
> desktops. IMHO anyways...
>
> about "reiserfs ate my /var partition", note that
> ext3 writeback mode where
> metadata only are journalized, you can still have
> old date or mix of old and new
> data in your files on remount after crash.
> ext3 ordered mode should be safer. but :
>
> note also that for eide disks, most of them works in
> writeback mode by default,
> ie the eide controller lye to the OS and say "ok, it
> has just been written on
> the disk" whereas it's only in the disk cache.
> so eide disks can lead to corruption dispite the
> medata journal.
> scsi disks should be safer here.
>
> there're also other hw problems than can lead to
> metadata corruption like the
> via bugs, the dma engine still writing do disk when
> the power is shoot down
> because it's powered longer than ram (ram needs to
> be refresh thousands times
> per second to keep its data), ...
>
> reiserfs
>
>
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