On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:12:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs *is* good at.
No actually reiserfs is rather fragile since it has essentially no redundancy in the meta data, unlike ext2/ext3 which have redundant superblocks and such. I have had major file corruption with reiserfs 3.6 when a system was turned of in the middle of a write, since (at least at the time) reiserfs would journal the meta data changes, and then just start overwriting the old contents of the file, and at boot it would update the meta data from the journal, and you end up with a partially updated file. ext3 on the other hand gives you either the version prior to the write, or the completely updated version, at least in my experience. I imagine with larger writes with some programs even ext3's ordered mode can't help you. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
