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From: Chris Walters <cjw2004d@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:46:59
Message-Id: 4544D94E.8000807@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem by Joshua Schmidlkofer
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4 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
5 > That's not true. Up to 2.6.17.5 it /may/ eat your data. I ran
6 > 2.6.17, in the buggy state, for >2 weeks before I upgraded. It did
7 > _not_ eat my data. Don't get me wrong - it was lucky, and yes - it's
8 > a heinous bug. If it just _ate_ your data, more people would have
9 > lost data and or filesystems.
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11 Well, I ran it then and didn't lose data or filesystems (very lucky),
12 but I switched to JFS because it was far faster on many things on my
13 system (such as deleting large numbers of files). I guess everyone has
14 different experiences with these relatively new filesystems (XFS and JFS)...
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16 Regards,
17 Chris
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