[Techtalk] Re: Tried fsck'ing it...

[James Sutherland]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Conor Daly wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:36:25PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Carla Schroder thought:
> >
> > It's certainly less hassle than restoring a trashed system. I think the most
> > important thing is to use SOME kind of journaling filesystem! So far my
> > experiences with ext3 are positive. I've not tried any others.
>
> FWIW, I'm told (no personal experience) that Reiserfs has had problems with fs
> corruption.

I lost a partition to it two months ago; after a reboot, it wouldn't
mount. After a reiserfsck, all the top and second level directories had
been renamed with numbers like 2_21285. NOT a pleasant experience.


James.
Now happily using the tried-and-tested code in ext3 instead :-)