Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Hans Reiser]

[e-mail] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:18:59PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote:
> > > My advice:
> > >
> > > Dont use reiserfs,JFS
> > > it is ok to use ext2
> > >
> > > Go journalling? use ext3 or XFS
> > >
> > > I have used  all of these fs and pick up this rule (up
> > > to now, not sure it remains right in the far  future)
> >
> > FUD. I've been using reiserfs on quite some systems and never got any
> > problem. If reiserfs wouldn't be stable, SuSE wouldn't have supported
> > it as one of their stable filesystems for over a year.
> 
> Actually, I've been having some nasty corruption problems as well with
> reiserfs. I develop my own drivers, and do occasionally make a mistake,
> and when that hangs the kernel it will also screw up all files touched
> just before it in a edit-make-install-try cycle. Which can be rather
> annoying, because you can start all over again (this effect randomly
> distributes the last touched sectors to the last touched files. Very nice
> effect, but not something I expect from a journalled filesystem).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bas Vermeulen
> 
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Do you think it is reasonable to ask that a filesystem be designed to work well with bad drivers?