On 2017-09-20 15:10, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 20/09/17 07:21 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
and these same people have never had an "unbootable system" from other causes or filesystem and gave no "second chance".
Yes, I've had unbootable systems ... with ext2, ext3, XFS, BtrFS, but NEVER EVER with ReiserFS.
I had, once. I don't remember if it was unbootable because I don't remember if it was the "/" parttion, but it was a broken beyond repair partition, although it was readable for backup/restore, I think. It was a bug that appeared where two different files, different names, the filesystem thought they had the same name - after they were created. Someone mentioned the bug in the mail list and I tried to reproduce. Yes, it did. Sigh. Now I don't try in a production filesystem ;-) And the bug was solved. I also have a recollection of a terrible corruption that did not allow the partition to be mounted and read. Recovery was impossible. I think the cause was power failure related or bad human error on my part. I don't remember that well. I have had terrible incidents with all filesystems. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)