On 10/29/06, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
>
> > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS.
> > >
> > > Unless you're using a laptop.
> >
> > Solar UPS?
>
> Battery!
>
actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mode doesnt detect when a
battery runs out - so everything goes black!
On one occasion I lost most of an ext3 file system, so I went back to
reiserfs and no more problems. I have lost small areas of data with
reiserfs (nothing recent though - very stable), but on ext3 Ive lost
whole systems (desktops, and the laptop mentioned above).
I'm a bit late joining the discussion but in my experience I would say
I had problems with reiserfs about 50% of the time spread over the
last six years or so. Most of the problems were the result of power
failures but I had all sorts of strange things happen like
/etc/X11/X11.conf being replaced with /etc/profile or some such
nonsense. Data loss happened occasionally as well. I ended up
creating a cronjob that ran sync every five minutes and that pretty
much put a stop to the problems.. Now I avoid using reiserfs although
I do use reiser4 for a squid cache and there does seem to be a
noticable speed improvement. Otherwise I'm slowly moving everything
over to jfs.
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