Brad Bendily
I have recently setup Suse 9.0 on a machine and configured it to be used as a Kiosk station. I used ReiserFS as the file systems on my 3 partitions I created. Since I've the machine up we have had two power outages. The problem is that when the machine starts up again the file systems don't get mounted and I get brought to the root login prompt and get asked to login and run fsck (or reiserfsck). And it trys to replay journals and do all that stuff. The first time it happened I recovered and it all worked. Today when it happened it wiped out my /home partition and everything was lost. Mostly.
I have my work desktop setup with ext3 partitions and the same power outage didn't affect this box.
I thought ReiserFS should be able to handle the instant reboots. Should I convert the kiosk PC to ext3? Or am I missing something in my ReiserFS setup? I'm having very similar problems resulting in my filesystems containing /var and /home being corrupted several times - very disappointing.
Making an "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" gives me most of the file systems back but I always end up with a bunch of files in lost+found and some really lost files. I'm using SuSE 9.0, kernel 2.4.21-202-default. The file systems are created on volumes of lvm-1.0.7-105, and the file systems use reiserfs-3.6.9-33. On an IBM T40 thinkpad which of course shouldn't matter. Any hint would be highly appreciated.
Brad B-- CLE
Regards, -- Ejnar