On Monday 06 August 2001 10:09 am, you wrote:
> On Mon Aug 06, 2001 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Stefan Siegel wrote:
>
> 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.
Same here. I did loose two partitions on completetly different hard drives
but tracked it down to hard drive controler failure. The only thing I can say
about the failure is that the ext2 partitions survived it but reiser didn't
However I run reiser on almost everything and this is the first time I've had
a problem.
