---------- quoting Mike Williams ---------- > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it > > Linux's software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or > > more of the IDE disks? Or is this normal for large (~400gb) ext3 > > partitions? > > > > Where do I get infos about this? Do you guys have some experiences to > > share? Hope you can help me, I am somewhat lost here :( > > Problem with ext3. > Been here, done this. > Switch to reiserfs, problem will disappear. > Reiser is also more suitable for lots of small files too.
Aha ok, I will check that out. Do you know why this happens -- is ext3 unstable? Why is ReiserFS better than ext3? Any good links to that topic? Greetings, Matthias PS: Is it possible to convert my ext3 based raid array w/o data loss to ReiserFS? -- Lisa: So gambling makes a good thing even better? Homer: That's right. My God, it's like there's some kind of bond between us. Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list