On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:30:43PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > All I can tell you is that we had a big Reiserfs filesystem get corrupted > last year. Several very experienced sysadmins spent over a week trying to > repair it. They failed. Much of the data was backups from other systems, > which wasn't too important, but there was some important data which *was* > lost. > > Maybe the tools have gotten better in the last year. But as a result of that > experience, we don't use ReiserFS any more.
Just trying to find some references to back this up, there's Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS "Something that has attracted much criticism is the tree rebuild process of ReiserFS fsck: If the filesystem becomes so badly corrupt that the filesystem internal tree is unusable, a tree rebuild operation can be performed which may even further corrupt existing files on it, or introduce new entries with unexpected contents" which in turn links to: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.3/0219.html Wikipedia does say that Reiser4 fixes this though. B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
