Dear Avante, You should not need to move your files yet. However, backing up your critical data on a regular basis is strongly advised. Now would be a good time to do this if you have not done so.
If its any help, I can say that the two server machines in my home network here (one w/AMD K6 III-450, VIA chipset, and other w/ K6-200 & Intel chipset) have been rock solid on reiserfs with Mandrake Linux 8.0 and stock kernel 2.4.10. These servers (old as they are) are running 100% reiserfs on their linux filesystems and are problem free. A couple of caveats here are: 1) I only run NFS when absolutely needed (e.g., to support network installs) 2) I am not running LVM, quota, or other additions that have required additional patches AFAIK. I had read early on about v2.4.3 and 2.4.7 being problemmatic, so I stayed off of these versions as soon as I switched from RedHat 6.2 to Mandrake 8.0. I have been running reiserfs since v2.4.3 when my systems were on RH (since early 2000), and have NEVER lost any important data. The only "incident" I can report is that at one point, an errant initscript version crashed the system several times, and caused one of my files /var/log/lastlog, I believe, got some bad bytes in the middle of it. That issue resolved itself when the file was archived as a .gz file by resident cron scripts. PS - I would like to thank Hans Reiser and his team at namesys.com for their tremendous contributions to the Linux community. I look forward to seeing what is coming in v4. Sincerely, David R. Bergstein Systems Engineer and Blues Musician - http://members.home.net/dbergstein/ Heart of Blue - bookings on-line at http://www.heartofblue.com OpenPGP Public Key 0x56A3E687 - For info see http://www.gnupg.org Key fingerprint = 3756 CCF2 8D82 ADDE 61F2 2A5A 2CEB EB09 56A3 E687 -----Original Message----- From: avante avante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [reiserfs-list] reiserfs on linux 2.4.3 I just read you're not supposed to mix reiserfs and linux 2.4.3. Unfortunately I didn't know that until today and that's exactly what I've been doing with Mandrake 8. Nothing unusual has happened so far but does anyone know what could happen and if I should move my files off immediately? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
