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List:       reiserfs-devel
Subject:    Re: [reiserfs-list] more issues...
From:       Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers () cern ! ch>
Date:       2001-03-06 12:05:06
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Good news is no news, so people with a good working reiserfs environment
probably don't mail to this list. Being a reasonable new reiserfs user
(since 1 month on my laptop) I must say that I only had one scare and
that was related with VMware (see my previous mail on this list). From
observing the mails on this list a lot of confusion and probably a
source of many problems is due to the mixing and matching of 2.2.x
and 2.4.2 kernels and old and new reiserfs formats. It also looks
like many people start trying out reiserfs on some old spare disks
that may have bad blocks and which cause reiserfs to fail (ext2 also
does not like bad blocks). Anyway, I think everybody would like to
see the horror stories deminish, especially where people loose
complete drives and hear stories how the data was recovered in
such cases with the help of the reiserfs guru's.


Cheers, Fons.


Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> 
> Ookhoi wrote:
> 
> > Two weeks ago we had a athlon k7 750MHz, a7v, 512 meg ram, two
> > quantum atlas v disks on an adaptec controller (software raid1),
> > suddenly crash a lot on us, while it had an uptime of several
> > months. The server is on a remote site, so we couldn't do much
> > more than ask the local staff if they wanted to push the button
> > if it crashed again. After a week we opened the case and found
> > the cpu fan to be very dead (and even a bit melted). Despite the
> > errors (sig11) which the overheated cpu caused, and the hard
> > crashes, and the software raid1, reiserfs (on all but 32Mb /boot)
> > stayed alive just fine. In fact reiserfs was a life saver because
> > we didn't need fsck on boot. :-)
> 
> this is really a very encouraging story.  the advantages of
> journaling filesystems are clearly exemplified.  however, this
> does not remove the many tales of horror that also come into
> reiserfs-list .  the best case scenarion would be that those
> horror stories are rare pecularities, and the success rates
> /far/ outnumber them.  i don't have much experience with
> reiserfs (i'm had it on my /tmp for a while now, but it's only
> been a week or so that i've had my / as reiserfs).
> is the success rate as high as it should be?
> 
> --
> noodlez:   Karol Pietrzak
> GPG/PGP-KeyID: 0x3A1446A0

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