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2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted |
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during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for |
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triggering the remote power OFF :) |
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Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and |
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reload was the only fix. Cant remember the exact error - its been known |
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for awhile, but wasn't all that common when i searched for it. |
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If they get a set of usable tools, especially online fsck I'd go back to |
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it as having a drive offline for hours whilst checking reiserfs isn't |
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great (though at least it doesnt happen often) |
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BillK |
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On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 17:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > Is it reliable? |
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> So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on |
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> /home and on an external drive i use for backup. |
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> > A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of |
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> > unfixable errors. Initially I was quite impressed, but until the tools |
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> > catch up with real world problems I'll watch from the sidelines. Errors |
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> > will happen, but fixing them is important too. |
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> Which kernel was that with? Was the issue caused by a power loss or |
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> normal running? The lack of tools is why Fedora are sticking with ext4 |
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> for 16. |
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