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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:42:25 -0500
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On Wednesday 30 May 2007 11:42:01 Toby Thain wrote:

> But does it cause data loss? One usually sees claims that "reiserfs
> ate my data", or "I heard reiserfs ate somebody's data", but without
> supplying a root cause - bad memory? powerfail? bad disk? etc.

Power failure shouldn't kill a filesystem, and generally shouldn't eat data=
=20
that was written to disk before the failure. (Although I could complain all=
=20
day here about why corruption happens anyway when you do any kind of=20
out-of-order operations...  I am looking forward to that Reiser4 transactio=
n=20
API, so we can finally get rid of the tmpfile+rename hack.)

But in any case, there were some kernels -- 2.4.16, I think? -- in which=20
reiserfs was unstable and did corrupt easily. I believe that was tracked do=
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to kernel bugs outside of reiserfs.

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