From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vince Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 -> 2.6 migration Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:10:57 +0100 Message-ID: <3FABD221.2010805@free.fr> References: <3FABA80A.1090608@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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