[Dovecot] AIX JFS2 FS for Dovecot Maildir?

Stewart Dean sdean at bard.edu
Mon May 8 15:24:26 EEST 2006


Does anyone have experience with the JFS2 filesystem under AIX with DC?

Ben wrote:
> Certainly, but my completely anecdotal experience is that I've seen 
> lots of people complain about bad memory causing corruption on their 
> reiser partitions, while far less people complain about the same 
> problem with other file systems. I'm not saying reiser is inherently 
> fragile, but it's a suspicious correlation.
>
> If reiser *wasn't* fragile, I'd expect to see more people complaining 
> how bad memory corrupted their ext3/xfs/whatever partition.
>
> On May 7, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Not necessarily... faulty memory could cause corruption that NO file 
>> system repair tools could repair.
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Charles

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