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[will]

Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> Dave Cridland(dave at cridland.net)@Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:33:56PM +0000:
> 
>>On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:50, Roger Whittaker wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.  In fact it was a problem with
>>>reiserfs - I cured it using resierfsck, which found these filenames which
>>>weren't pointing to anything and delected them.  How it got like that,
>>>though, I've got no idea.  The reiserfsck dropped some junk into
>>>lost+found which all looked like browser cache stuff too.
>>>
>>Oh, reiserfs... Yes, lost lots of data on that.
>>
>>It *might* be dodgy hardware, or it *might* be bugs in ReiserFS. Either
>>way, ext[23] appear to fail a little nicer on dodgy/dying disks. Perhaps
>>this is purely luck on my part, but either way, last I looked,
>>reiserfsck didn't seem to do very much, whereas I trust e2fsck happily.
> 
> i kinda agree with that sentiment aswell.  i had a fsck'ing IBM disk
> with reiserfs on it.  one day my machine kept panic()ing on bootup.
> turned out it was because the init scripts couldnt unlink /etc/mtab.
> the fsck reported nothing, but that one bug hosed the FS.  in th eend i
> backed up what i could, and reformated.

I had a couple of problems a while ago with reiserfs on a suse 7.2 
install.  I can't remember what they were exactly, but I steer clear of 
reiserfs now and stick to ext3 which I have never had any problems with.

Will.



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