On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:02, Nate Duehr wrote: > My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to "try it out" on a brand new > Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago. > > Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair > with the reiserfs tools. I don't shut it off improperly or anything > like that, and have been doing admin work for many years on Linux. > > ReiserFS? Never again. I have over 80 machines using ext3 that "just > work". Why I even bothered with ReiserFS on that one machine is beyond > me... > > Nate
Strange, as I have been using it since it's first inclusion in the (2.2?) kernel, and have never had a problem at all. Are you sure your hardware/setup were sound at the time, or were you just unlucky? > Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > > Well, I see about once a week someone asking about Reiserfs and problems.. I use > > ext3.. But I just can't figure out if these are user things or if reiserfs just > > that "flaky".. > > > > I don't see to much ext2/3 or xfs questions.. But I don't know just how many > > people actually use XFS.. > > > > > >>Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: > >> > >>"ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc > >> > >> If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux > >> boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted > >>filesystem. > >> This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may > >> have lost some files or directories due to the corruption." > >> > >>Granted I should have read this before doing the install, but, I made > >>all my partitions Reiser (except for boot). So now I'm wondering > >>about the likelihood of data corruption. Has anyone experienced it? > >>Are there things I can do to ensure it doesn't happen to me (or at > >>least reduce the possibility)? (Other than "backup early, backup > >>often" of course :) > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Tom Wesley
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