[Gllug] [Fwd: Server]

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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Richard Jones moaned:
[on reiserfs]
> The design of the filesystem (ie. without blocks) pretty much ensures
> that any corruption can't be recovered manually.

Er, reiserfs has blocks; even reiserfs4 has blocks.

Sure, tail packing means that the ends of multiple files can be squashed
together in a single block, but that's hardly radical: I mean, even FFS
does it!

(The tree layout makes it tricky to recover, though.)

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