Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Tony Hoyle
2001-05-11T14:57:17Z

Matthias Andree wrote:

> You're not getting data loss, but access denied, when hitting
> incompatibilities, and it looks like it hits 2.2 hard while 2.4 is less
> of a problem. Please search the reiserfs list archives for details.
> vs-13048 is a good search term, I believe.

Data is lost:

Root can't access the files.
Reiserfsck can't repair the files.
The files that are corrupted are unrelated to the ones exported over NFS
(which makes me wonder if it's the same bug).

File corruption would begin a couple of hours after the volume was
formatted, and become catastrophic within a couple of days.

Until the fix is merged I'm not going within 100 miles of reiserfs!

Tony

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