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On 10/29/06, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Unless you're using a laptop. |
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> > > |
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> > > Solar UPS? |
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> > |
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> > Battery! |
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> > |
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> actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mode doesnt detect when a |
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> battery runs out - so everything goes black! |
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> On one occasion I lost most of an ext3 file system, so I went back to |
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> reiserfs and no more problems. I have lost small areas of data with |
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> reiserfs (nothing recent though - very stable), but on ext3 Ive lost |
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> whole systems (desktops, and the laptop mentioned above). |
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I'm a bit late joining the discussion but in my experience I would say |
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I had problems with reiserfs about 50% of the time spread over the |
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last six years or so. Most of the problems were the result of power |
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failures but I had all sorts of strange things happen like |
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/etc/X11/X11.conf being replaced with /etc/profile or some such |
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nonsense. Data loss happened occasionally as well. I ended up |
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creating a cronjob that ran sync every five minutes and that pretty |
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much put a stop to the problems.. Now I avoid using reiserfs although |
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I do use reiser4 for a squid cache and there does seem to be a |
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noticable speed improvement. Otherwise I'm slowly moving everything |
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over to jfs. |
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