On Mon Aug 06, 2001 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Stefan Siegel wrote:
> > > thesis on it ... Since then I don't trust ReiserFS => I wouldn't install it
> > > currently on a critical system, only on playgounds for data loosing ...
> >
> > The question is whether it ameliorates mean crash recovery on critical
> > systems. Nornally journaling would go in the right direction, but there
> > are still potential problems.
> >
> > Any filesystem you're using, you'll still want to do periodic saves on
> > tape devices, or even replication.
>
> Sure in theory you are right. But ReiserFS don't seem to be stable enough
> (atleast for me) as on the _FIRST_ crash (Power failure on the whole
> PC) I had, it shrederd my data. ext2 sometime eats data too, I know -
> but only files - at least on my side it never killed whole partitions.
>
> I am hoping for ext3 as it works on top of ext2 afaik.
This is really odd... I've been using reiserfs almost exclusively
since 7.2 on all my machines. The only partition that I don't use it
for is /var because I run qmail on all my machines and there was an
issue with qmail and reiserfs in the past (no idea if it's fixed, but
/var being ext2 is a matter of habit now).
Anyways, I've had a number of power outtages despite having UPS's with
the systems all of a sudden going down. I may have lost the odd file
occassionally, but certainly never an entire partition. Considering
this is on about 5 machines all showing the same thing, I'm a little
hesitant to think it's reiserfs *alone*. Maybe there is something
with the files on /var that causes this problem (again, maybe if I had
reiserfs /var partitions I would have experienced the same thing, I
don't know).
I do know that I have never lost more than a handful of files and I've
got many reiserfs partitions across various systems.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net
1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD
- Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org
- MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com
Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin uptime: 10 days 22 hours 51 minutes.
PGP signature
