On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
> ..
> > IIRC, someone (I think it was Orly) mentioned on the list a few months
> > back that one of the big reasons why NTFS write support was complicated on
> > Linux is because NTFS is a journalling file system, and the kernel does
> > not yet have a generic journalling facility.
>
> Actually NTFS write is USABLE enough with the following caveats:
>
> 1) after unmounting the NTFS volume, you must run 'ntfsfix' on it
> 2) when you boot to Win2k, the Win2k fsck will HAVE to be run, it will do
> some repairs that make the NTFS volume 'pristine'
>
> I'm not very optimistic about a generic journaling facility in Linux. SGI
> XFS is *trying* to do that, but I tried their impossible-to-compile kernel
> and gave up in disgust -- I see why Linus &c don't like the SGI changes,
> they're very wide-ranging.
>
> ReiserFS manages to not break everything, but it's a not-very-good
> journaling layer (remember the problems with LVM and software RAID.. at
> least XFS works over LVM).
>
The only major complaint i have read re: reiserfs is its inability to
sanely deal with media errors. There is are no recovery utilities for
this and quite simply your system goes bananas when it 'steps' into a bad
block in the disk. I had this happen to me once with a jaz disk on
reiserfs.
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