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On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, b.n. wrote: |
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> You are scaring me, anyway, :) and yours is not the first horror story I |
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> have heard about ReiserFS. |
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> I've heard good things about XFS, probably when I'll have to format I'll |
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> give it a try. |
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than you did not hear of the '2.6.17 kernels XFS eats data' stories. If you |
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have xfs and boot any 2.6.17.X with X<5 kernels, XFS will be corrupted. |
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Most reiserfs horror stories are from early 2.4 kernels anyway. |
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And if someone has lots of reiser corruption, there are really only two |
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options left: |
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something is wrong with his hardware |
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he optimized his system to death. |
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He did not even tell, how he ruled out hardware problems. |
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I have seen data corruption because of flaky cables, bad PSU, bad harddisks |
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(IBM deathstar), bad ram.... |
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