Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Matthias Andree
2001-05-11T16:53:31Z

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> ls can't access the files either, so I don't see how that could rectify
> anything. The entire directory becomes inaccessible. This happened to
> /lib once. Nasty.

No-one can access the files once the caches are hosed. Purge the
inode/dentry caches and retry.

> I'd like to be able to use something like reiserfs, especially when
> developing (it reduces boot time a lot). However to call it 'stable' on
> 2.4.4 is simply wrong. If/when the nfs fix gets merged and tested
> *then* it stands a chance of being called stable.

Does that actually apply to 2.4.4 or rather to 2.2.19?