[NTLUG:Discuss] no more reiserfs

[Greg Edwards]

OK, I've had my fill of this POS.

Last night for the 2nd time in less than 6 months I had an entire 
partition become toast!!!  I don't have any idea what happened but on my 
mail server I have a 2nd drive which gets ALL server controlled files 
and it's simply gone.

Mount says invalid partition type and fsck -t reiserfs /dev/hbd1 simply 
outputs the program name and stops.  The -V option adds some other 
program info but nothing about the drive condition.

I finally had to give up and begin to build a new disk.  ALL of my 
user's email is gone.  I use that drive to keep upgraded rpms and 
programs purchased and downloaded online to share across all of my 
systems.  That's gone.  My mailing lists are stored on that drive. 
That's gone.  One list had well over 100 subscribers and another one was 
approaching 50.

I just got a new tape drive a couple weeks ago and installed it in one 
of my systems.  Unfortunately I have not setup the software to run the 
tape.  So, no backup!!!

I'm going back to ext2.  At least it is rock solid and I have NEVER lost 
a partition with it.  I don't need fast reboot since, as we all know, 
you don't need to reboot linux.  Seriously these machines stay up for 
months at a time so I don't need that feature.  At least not this bad!!

Venting done, thanks I needed that!!

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com