On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:29:28PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> 
> >My ONLY experience with ReiserFS was to "try it out" on a brand new 
> >Gentoo installed machine a few weeks ago.
> >
> >Within a week the machine would not boot anymore and would not repair 
> >with the reiserfs tools.  I don't shut it off improperly or anything 
> >like that, and have been doing admin work for many years on Linux.
> >
> >ReiserFS?  Never again.  I have over 80 machines using ext3 that "just 
> >work".  Why I even bothered with ReiserFS on that one machine is 
> >beyond me...
> >
> 
> I had the same problem. Seems to be related with NFS. Whenever NFS 
> touches reiserfs I get problems. I know other people don't get these 
> problems... and I'm happy for them... But I seem to get them when I mix 
> reiserfs and NFS.
> 
> All NFS exported FS's I use are XFS.
> 
> XFS is also the only FS that has a working "dump" command for 
> active/mounted filesystems.

INTERESTING.  I think I did temporarily NFS export the machine to
another right before the damage.  Sounds like a lovely bug.

Oh well, the recent traffic on the kernel mailing lists about NFS has
been embarassing to read anyway... with "soft" mounting generically
breaking on a number of people's machines and the NFS maintainer just
blowing people off and telling them to use hard mounts.  Sheesh. 

-- 
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Reply via email to