On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 17:23 -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 22:39 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
three or four years ago we had a major reiserfs corruption due to faulty memory modules (as I know now). The result was a completely unusable and unrepairable partition that could eventually, after two weeks or so, be repaired with the help of Hans Reiser himself. Even though I really appreciated direct involvement of the main developer, I will avoid it by any means.
Not that I really care what you use, but don't you think it's a bit illogical to avoid a filesystem based on problems you know were caused by faulty hardware? Just how is the filesystem supposed to avoid problems from bad RAM?
Yes, you are right, the cause for this incident was faulty memory and I don't blame reiserfs for failing due to this. But the effect was a unrepairable filesystem and that again was a problem with the repair tools available then. And that definetively left a bad after taste for me.
It may be pure coincidence, but I never experienced anything equally desastrous with any other FS (knocking on wood right now :-).
Udo Rader
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