Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:52:14 -0500 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:17:06PM -0500, David Masover wrote: > >>I was able to recover from bad blocks, though of course no Reiser that I >>know of has had bad block relocation built in... But I got all my files >>off of it, fortunately. > > > My experience shows that you've been very, very lucky. I hope r4 is > better in that regard.
I was on Reiser4. And as Hans is loudly protesting, v3 seems to be stable now, including being somewhat resilient to disk breakage.
But I do better backups now.
> If you want to try with r3, take a well-used partition[1] and copy it > at block level to another partition or a file. Then zero some random > spans of blocks in the copy and reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it. My > experience is that you'll usually get the files names and directory > tree but their contents will have been scattered all over the place.
Sometime I'll try that. I do remember mounting read-only *before* I tried the --rebuild-tree, because I didn't want to give it a chance to screw up more that it already was.
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