-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For me the problem was that files which weren't even being written to would get fragged with data from other files ending up mixed in with them. This would happen on machines that had been running for long periods of time with uptimes nearing 200+ days. Suddenly files like sendmail.cf, httpd.conf, and probably many others I didn't notice on multiple servers.
I could see fragging during crashes, but while running - ouch. On Thursday 10 October 2002 07:17 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Jason Straight wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:45:45AM -0400 : > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > If I had a nickel for every file reiserfs fragged on a busy server it > > still woudln't come close to paying for the downtime - ext3 is rock > > solid. > > <cool> > reiserfsck --check > reiserfsck --fix-fixable > </cool> > > <shudder> > reiserfsck --rebuild-sb > reiserfsck --rebuild-tree > </shudder> > > Reiser definitely has its benefits. I have seen reports of people that > use it for news servers where expires normally take hours. With reiser > it does it in (IIRC) 15 minutes or less. When things go wrong, a newbie > is scared by the daunting task of repairing the fs. > > Had one on IRC just the other day. Newbie shuffled power wires around > to add a fan. He ended up overloading one segment and his drive > started writing bad data. He had to do a rebuild-tree to get it all > back. He learned a lot that night. Unfortunately, it scared him so > much that he swore to never use Reiser again. (That's the wrong > attitude because on any other file system, the abuse he put it through > might have rendered it completely useless). > > Blue skies... Todd - -- "Having no way as way, having no limitation as limitation." Bruce Lee PGP Keys: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~junfan/pubkey.asc Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 1796276 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPaYZCBFHZPcobeHxAQI3jwP/fSwlOrooye4mKGGL1MfTzsSzAh66uc6S C91AvqbPZFdEgdwGchA7liL0WN94SUOvCwfOEmie99A53O+/h3p9pmujntmgWKyp cVn9RusvcAG8ryAUvU9oUqbOknk2+TAFjsnfAd9GdN2aCEPMVodDAykF4OmMrw+b JeIUnGIv+2k= =VEwP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
