Well, I see about once a week someone asking about Reiserfs and problems.. I use 
ext3.. But I just can't figure out if these are user things or if reiserfs just that 
"flaky"..

I don't see to much ext2/3 or xfs questions.. But I don't know just how many people 
actually use XFS..

> Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following:
> 
> "ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc 
> 
>  If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux
>  boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted 
> filesystem.
>  This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may
>  have lost some files or directories due to the corruption."
> 
> Granted I should have read this before doing the install, but, I made
> all my partitions Reiser (except for boot).  So now I'm wondering
> about the likelihood of data corruption.  Has anyone experienced it?
> Are there things I can do to ensure it doesn't happen to me (or at
> least reduce the possibility)?  (Other than "backup early, backup
> often" of course :)

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