[Gllug] ext3 filesystem suddenly full

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:07:41PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Alain Williams wrote:
> > But it works ... it is only scary because it is not an everyday task.
> 
> No, it's scary because the only failure mode is catastrophic dataloss.

Are you saying that you have had a bad experience ?

Who has done this, how often, how recently, success/fail ?

Me ?

The first time that I did it was on a Dec OSF/1 system 10 odd years ago,
advfs - worked well.

Recently on Linux, Reiser & ext3 (twice) worked without problem.

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