Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Hans Reiser
2001-05-11T15:42:49Z

Tony Hoyle wrote:

> 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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>
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>
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there is a patch, it is on our website, what is the problem?