[NTLUG:Discuss] no more reiserfs

[Scott Denlinger]

Greg,

You might want to look into SGI's open source XFS file system. I too had 
some Reiser partitions on a disk, including my root dir., and lost 
everything. XFS is journalling and in my experience at least, more 
"stable" than Reiser. You'll need to patch your kernel and recompile it 
to add XFS partitions. I don't know if there are plans to incorporate 
the XFS file system into the 2.6 kernel, but you'll need to apply SGI's 
patch to the 2.4 kernel source.

See SGI's web site for more info.

Caveat lector: I am by no means a file system expert. I only relate what 
works for me. It is *not* my intention to start nor will I be drawn into 
a flame war about file systems. :-)

Scott Denlinger
sbd at dakotacom.net

Greg Edwards wrote:

> 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!!
>