Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:02:12 -0400 Received: from d122251.upc-d.chello.nl ([213.46.122.251]:41484 "EHLO arnhem.blackstar.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:02:01 -0400 From: bvermeul@devel.blackstar.nl Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:04:48 +0200 (CEST) To: Hans Reiser cc: kernel Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption In-Reply-To: <3B617F34.FE1EE755@namesys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > we all have different usage patterns and different needs. I find it > extremely convenient to not be using ext2 when my dell laptop with its > poor linux power management crashes frequently, or the kernel crashes. > I have never had any problem with data corruption. Many users I know > have also had good experiences with leaving behind ext2 and going to > reiserfs on their laptops. For your needs and patterns though, it > sounds like you need ext3. The point is, this can happen every time the kernel crashes, and reiserfs wrote something to it's metadata logs (or so I gather from your and Alan's explanation). And apart from my source files getting randomly distributed, reiserfs works like a charm (I have a Dell as well, and it used to crash a lot, which was the main reason for me to switch to reiserfs in the first place), is fast, and stable. I like it a lot, but not on a machine where I do my development on, nor a machine without a UPS. It just doesn't help not knowing if/when a file gets corrupted/wrongly distributed/written back/whatever. It looks to me (with all my ignorance) that reiserfs shuffles it's blocks a lot when writing back, and that bites when something interrupts it. I can't back that up with code, put my finger to it or anything else, but that's my take on my problems. Bas Vermeulen -- "God, root, what is difference?" -- Pitr, User Friendly "God is more forgiving." -- Dave Aronson - 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/