On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:10, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > That's what I hear a lot, but I've also heard the horror stories of > losing entire filesystems to ReiserFS. I've never heard of anything like > that happening with ext2/3.
I'll share the one and only problem I've had with reiserfs. One day my system's kernel started to dump the registers and halt. I would reboot and everything would be fine. I would login to the machine using KDM/KDE and work away for a while then again the system would halt. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, I selectively removed files from /tmp and found that when I tried to remove one particular directory the system would halt. I decided to boot into single user mode and run reiserfsck. When I did, reiserfsck reported it found errors it could not fix and I would have to use the '--rebuild-tree' option. I ran reiserfsck with the option and it fixed my problem without loosing any data. I was able to remove everything from /tmp and not have the kernel halt. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
