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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:57:13 +0300 |
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Dadi <thewalrus@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Regarding reiser, some friends of mine were telling me that it's notorious for |
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> breaking files when unexpected things happen. Is this true? I mean I had my |
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> share of trouble with reiser also on other harddisks but always lived with |
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> the thought that it was a hardware problem more then a fs problem. Now it's |
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> all coming together and starting to make sense. |
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Well the current stable reiserfs (that is, not v.4) is pretty safe from this kind of trouble in my experience. One of my servers gets a lot of unexpected reboots because it's located at a really bad spot (on the floor under a desk, power-button easily accessible). It's been running reiserfs for well over a year and lost files have not happened to me (that I know) and the box is working without any trouble. |
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What happens to some people is that reierfs sometimes saves up on stuff to write to disk, and when power disappears there is no time for the buffer to get written to the disk. That would account for some of the lost files I guess. I run the command 'sync' when I wans to make sure stuff ends up on the disk, like after etc-update. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel |
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