On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: > ... > > > > I had one of these once as the early warning that reiserfs was about to > > > take a dump. I ended up trying reiserfsck on it, which destroyed about > > > half the files in the partition. Back up early and often. > > > > Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila. > > I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once every 2 months and then move > > my backup of bookmarks and cookie (do not set) files back over. 2 times > > now it's created a file I couldn't remove. Except by a 3rd party > > (rescue disk) boot and removal. > > > > James > > mine was a mozilla cache file too, now that I think about it. So the > problem that I experienced in that case probably wasn't reiserfs, but > reiserfsck. > > That said, once you've had to rebuild and restore an 8x72GB RAID5 > production array during business hours because the filesystem caused a > kernel panic under load, you tend to cast a hairy eyeball toward that > file system... > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3455/2003/7/0/10528457/
Thanks people. I've just done a complete reinstall and moved over to 99% reiserFS. ;-( -- Richard Urwin
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