On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Sridhar M.A. wrote: |I plan to try reiserfs on a couple of my partitions as there is too |much of power outage recently :-(
That is the *worst* reason to switch to a journaling filesystem.. they don't guarantee anything for powerfailures. .. this is an FAQ for Journaling filessystems... |Are there any precautions to be taken? Can I safely store my data on |those partitions? What are the experiences/advice of users who have |shifted to the journalling file systems? Power failures can cause serious *irrecoverable* damage to your data.. you are better off without reiserfs .. for which there are no data recovery tools... I'd recommend you to switch to ext3 ... which provides an easy migration path and since it's backward compatible to ext2 you also get a wider range of data recovery tools/methods. (I personally went through hell when I lost about 1000 odd mails on reiserfs. I was lucky that I managed to recover almost all of them.) Kingsly _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
