From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 06:54:39 -0400 Message-ID: <200208100654.39202.tomlins@cam.org> References: <20020810090529.GA411@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20020810090529.GA411@home> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Radim Kolar , reiserfs-list@namesys.com On August 10, 2002 05:05 am, Radim Kolar wrote: > I have 3 debian gnu linux machines here with reiserfs. I am using > reiserfs about 2 years and when i have some kind of problem with > reiserfs - it is allways with /var/lib/dpkg/info directory. > It looks like there is too many hash collisions or reiserfs do not > likes long directories. > > Because of my previous bad experiences with losing this directory - i am > using rdist to backup it now. In some cases both directories (original > and backup) are corrupted. > > i have 3090 files in this directory - this is not that much, on ext2 > it is quite slow when compared to reiser, but ext2 do not have any > problems with directory corruption here. Anybody experienced this? I have debian runing on reiserfs and have had it for several years. No problems with directory corruption here. Ed Tomlinson