[Gllug] Linux equivalent of OS X filesystem Directory

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:22:53PM +0000, John Hearns wrote:

> 2008/11/19 - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com>
> 
> >
> > Be careful here. There are likely to be people reading this list that
> > will see that and think "I want better performance from my
> > filesystem", and think about using ResierFS. Don't get me wrong, Hans
> > had some nice ideas, but wasn't able to implement them in a reliable
> > way[1]. To clarify: ReiserFS is good for losing your data. Nothing
> > more. Avoid it at all costs.
> >
> 
> I had a trip up to Aberdeen to spend a joyful day at an oil company where a
> filesystem had gone, using lots of nice low-level ReiserFS tools to try to
> repair it. Truth be told though in this case it wouldn't have mattered if it
> was Reiser, ext99 or FAT32 - you get a dual disk failure and data is toast.

According to http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2008-September/msg00001.html
recovering ReiserFS might be a bit trickier than anything else.

Kostas
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