Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 1999 15:00:36 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Announce: LVM Patch against kernel 2.3.28 (really, can one FS corrupt another FS's data) |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Don't however think you can safely > test an fs on a production box just on one partition and be safe. You can > be _safer_ but you should be prepared to cover the worst. > >
The funny thing is that in all my years of hacking on reiserfs, neither I nor anyone else on my team has ever corrupted any ext2 partitions as a result of the many bugs in not yet debugged test versions of reiserfs. I thought that surely I would have to worry about this, but no.... I learned by experience not theory that it just doesn't happen, and not to worry about it. Maybe other FS developers have had a different experience. That said, a buggy reiserfs surely can crash the machine, and so yes, you should not use an unstable reiserfs release on a mission critical machine. We'll have something stable in a few days I hope.
Hans
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