Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:03:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:03:12 -0400 Received: from web10408.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.110]:63506 "HELO web10408.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:02:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20010719020259.24124.qmail@web10408.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:02:59 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Steve=20Kieu?= Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption To: kernel In-Reply-To: <20010718182201.J13239@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- 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 Probably !. I said just from my computer, :-) Reiserfs uses system resources more than others. Perfomance is ok (not as far more or less than JFS) but after using for a while, some mysterious things happen ; for example, the ini file of some program is changed wihtout any reason. For example I run mc and make it learn all keys, and pause when executing a command ; After reboot, sometimes all these setting are lost, some times not. It still happen with XFS though but never see in ext2, ext3 (now I am using) JFS I was happy to use that when my computer is normal power off. One time, power outage then it completely trashed my root partition (can not recover by any means) Have to restore from backup file and sure, let it go for now. I aggree Reiserfs should be stable but unfortunately in my computer it doesn's show any good sign of advantages than xfs or ext3. Dont mention about some minor bug like zero log file (fixed already I hope) but the data. Ahhh, I remember one time when I ran pppd call myisp pppd can not make the connection. I view the syslog file and noticed that chat send the wrong command to the modem. Strange, I thought as it is usually ok to make the connection. Check the /etc/ppp/chat/myisp file ; things seem to be normal. Ok I delete that file and edit it again exactly what I saw in the previous file. Run pppd call myisp; it is Ok. What do you think? It has not yet happen to me now, for about 2 weeks (with ext3) Okay may be that is FUD ; lets be like that way. I only say from my usage. Cheers, > 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. > > > Erik > > -- > J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication > Theory Group, Department > of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information > Technology and Systems, > Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 > GA Delft, The Netherlands > Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: > J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl > WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ===== S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/