Re: reiserFS?

Xavier Roche
2006-07-16T16:16:38Z

> It simply the best filesystem for many kinds of usage patterns.

The most frightening too. Reiserfs might be suitable for very specific appliactions, but to use it in production machine, you need to have some guts.

My last reiserfs partition was blown up two days ago, because of a bad sector, plus a fatal oops, looping endlessly. This was the second time, and the last one, as none of my ext3 filesystems *ever* had similar problems, despite numerous other bad sector issues. Not mentionning the funny "recovery" tool, which generally finishes to trash your data.

Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: hdh: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12458384, sector=12458383
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 12458383
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/file.c:620!
..
Jul 14 23:35:29 linux kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds

The funny part is that 14 july is the french's fireworks day, generally launched around midnight.