> > 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.
I forgot to mention. For my computers at home, for non-nfs exporting FS's, I use reiserfs without problems. My home directory that is exported to several other machines is XFS... However at work I only use XFS as there is a working dump (xfsdump). So if you care about backups the go with XFS. ext2/ext3 can do dumps on unmounted filesystems or a dump on a snapshot via LVM or EVMS, but that can turn into a mess of cron jobs when trying to automate... -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WorkE:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
