During the bombing raid on Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:09:45 -0600, Vincent Danen was
heard mumbling in fear:
> 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
Count me in as a happy reiserfs user, since somewhere in the 7.1
appearance (hand-patched into 2 7.0 servers and 3 workstations)...only had one
problem, and that actually was due to the infamous VIA bug + the Reiserfs bug
of a while back (chipset optimizations bug, I believe) that we tracked here in
cooker...but no problems at all since nor before. And back then (it was during
the road to 8.0) it was file corruption, never partition corruption...only
thing that insisted on dieing was the rpm database whenever I installed 2 or
more files at a time.
> 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
My workstation has had....well...enough power outtages...without any
problems.
> 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).
Nop, nothing to do with /var...I have everything under reiserfs and no
problems at all....so...I don't think it's a reiserfs+/var problem, but
something else...maybe something like the qmail bug you mentioned.
>
> I do know that I have never lost more than a handful of files and I've
> got many reiserfs partitions across various systems.
Counting 32 reiserfs partitions under my hand, most of them under stock
mandrake kernels (have a suse box somewhere)
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