On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Matt Garman wrote: > > 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 :)
I have 40G of mp3s sitting un-reachable on a hard drive right now because I can't mount the reiserfs partition. It gives me a strange error, and I *think* the error might be related to bad blocks. I don't belive that it's massive hardware failure or anything, as the drive was relatively new (though anythings possible). Maybe I'll dig it out and plug it in and do some more tests on it. Maybe the reiserfsck checks have gotten better in the last 6m or so. On the other hand /home on my server is reiser and has been running fine under high load (including running a massive ubb website from a dir in /home and having a lot of I/O) and it's never given me any problems. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
