Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:21:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:21:27 -0400 Received: from [208.187.172.194] ([208.187.172.194]:13594 "HELO odin.oce.srci.oce.int") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:21:13 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Joshua Schmidlkofer To: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:18:12 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: kernel In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0107270818120A.06707@widmers.oce.srci.oce.int> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing I've almost quit using reiser, because everytime I have a power outage, the last 2 or three files that I've editted, even ones that I haven't touched in a while, will usually be hopelessly corrupted. The '~' that Emacs makes is usually fine though. It seems to be that any open file is in danger. I don't know if this is normal, or not, but I switched to XFS on several machines. I have nothing against reiser. I assumed that these problems were due to immaturity.... One more thing - All my computers with Reiser as '/' on them had a disturbingly long boot time. From the time when the Redhat startup scripts began, it was.... hideously slow. I thought nothing of it, blaming bash, etc, Until I switched to ext2 on all those. Now the boot time is... SUPER fast. [3 Computers, 1 K6-2, a Pentium III, and a Pentium II, all 128+meg, and IDE] I currently have 3 computers running reiserfs left, all are using MySQL databases. Once, I lost power in on my SQL box, [it was blessedly during a period of no use.] I had to rebuild all the indexes. Not only THAT, but what happens to that box if I lose power whilst in the middle of operations? I am working on the migration plan to move that to XFS because of these concerns. [However, I am doing a better job of testing with XFS first.] I think that Reiser is cool, and has neat ideology, but I am un-nerved by this behaviour. js > > Yup. I know ext2 can do it. I expect a filesystem to not foul up my data > when something happens. Especially not shuffle around sectors in several > files. I can understand that the changes I made are not on disc, I can > even understand it if my files are gone, but not when it corrupts my data. > That just plain sucks. > > A friend of mine has had crashes as well (not reiser related btw), where > files he was using at the time suddenly contained different pieces of > different files. It's just plain annoying. The reason why *I* use(d) > reiserfs was the fact that I thought that it would protect my data when > something does crash. From my experience, it doesn't, and I'd rather wait > a couple of minutes for ext2 to fsck than use reiserfs and be sure I can > start all over again. > > Regards, > > Bas Vermeulen - 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/