Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:07:11 +0200 | Subject | Re: reiserFS? | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:28:31PM +0200, Christian Trefzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:16:31PM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > > > It simply the best filesystem for many kinds of usage patterns. > > > > The most frightening too. Reiserfs might be suitable for very specific > > appliactions, but to use it in production machine, you need to have > > some guts. > > > > My last reiserfs partition was blown up two days ago, because of a bad > > sector, plus a fatal oops, looping endlessly. This was the second > > time, and the last one, as none of my ext3 filesystems *ever* had > > similar problems, despite numerous other bad sector issues. Not > > mentionning the funny "recovery" tool, which generally finishes to > > trash your data. > > I don't quite understand. You are supposed to dd_rescue the whole block > device to a working drive and use fsck on the copy. Whatever is lost in > the process must of course be restored from a recent backup. But, as a > friend of mine put it recently, people don't need backup, they only need > restore ; ) > Well, many a home user simply doesn't have a a spare block device of the same size. The hassle of reinstalling instead of just waiting out a fsck is something still.
The ext filesystems are nice in that they have spare superblocks, if the main one dies from a bad sector, the spares still work so you don't loose the entire fs to only a few damaged sectors.
> fsck on a faulty drive might cause even more damage - how do you know > that other areas of the device are OK? > Somehow, that has saved my day quite a few times with ext2. I only lost a few files, then went shopping for a new disk. :-)
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