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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Lost Files
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:44:32 +0300
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To: Alexander Waller <a.waller@webpoint.at>
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Alexander Waller wrote:

>Hi !
>Yesterday it was the third time I lost important files on a
>reiserfs-partition.
>This time I had a reasonable backup.
>So i could minimize the time my server was offline.
>I use S.u.S.E 8.2.
>The first to times reiserfsck was not able to repair any file. I found all
>of them in the directory /lost+found, but that was not good for me. ( 11000
>files there )
>This time about 5000 files were in /lost+found and the rest in the right
>place.
>
>Is this a normal behavior or do you think I have a hardware problem ?
>Is the S.u.S.E implementation wrong ?
>Shall I change to ext3 ? ( It=B4s slower, I know )
>
>Whats the right strategie to recover a defetive partition ?
>
>Alex.
>
>
> =20
>
It is not normal.  It is very likely to be hardware.

--=20
Hans