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Theodore Ts'o wrote: >On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Briggs wrote: > > >>I use Reiser3 and Reiser4 on all my systems and fsck has always worked >>even if it has been much slower than I would like. The only problems >>I've experienced have been on the same level as when an ext2/3 >>filesystem fsck dumps several directories of unlabeled files into lost >>+found. >> >> > >You've obviously never kept several dozen reiserfs filesystem images >(for use with Xen or User-Mode Linux) on a reiserfs filesystem, and >then had a hardware failure bad enough that the fsck had to try to >rebuild the b-tree, I take it? > > That is fixed in V4. Until people start to use V4 they should compress their V3 backup images that they store on V3, or store them on separate partitions. I regret that fixing it without a disk format change was not possible. Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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