Re: Linux 2.4 -> 2.6 migration

[Vince <fuzzy77@free.fr>]

Sebastian Kaps wrote:

> 
> The problem is not that newly written data is lost but that files
> suddenly have contents that belong to other files. I could live with the
> loss of unsaved data but for example I hate it when my window manager
> configuration is wrecked because contents that would belong to
> /var/log/messages appear in its config files. I've never had this with
> ext2 but quite a few times with ReiserFS.

Same here, and I couldn't agree more. I've had several bad corruption in 
my config files and logs happening because of this particular - and way 
too common - reiserfs behaviour...   :-/

>>If you want your data to be consistent in such cases you need to apply
>>Chris Mason's data logging patches, or use the SuSE Linux kernel.
>>See http://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason

On the same topic : does anybody know if there is a 2.6 version of these 
patches available somewhere ? (or else if a 2.6 port of those is planned 
in the short term ?)

Vincent