-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-05-12 at 02:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 11 May 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
No, there are problems with reiserfs. I also lost data when a reiserfs system crashed and was unrecoverable. Since, I have moved to exf3 and have not lost data.
Reiser crashed? It just up and crashed all by itself? Are you sure your machine didn't crash or you hare drive didn't fail? Are you sure there was no electrical failure, power surge? You are sure it was Reiser?
I am. I recall some years ago (2..4) reiserfs claimed that a file with a certain name had the same name as another file, which had a different name in fact. This was reported in the security list at the time. I was one of the people that tried it... and my partition was completely hosed, I had to reformat it. The problem was duly corrected. All on record. Also, I can report failures with XFS and EXT3. I still have an XFS partition that crashes the recovery program, which I forgot to report. One of this days, if I can still reproduce the failure or find my notes. Software is fallible. The more complex a piece of software is, the more fallible it is. That doesn't make it necessarily bad. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGRdQPtTMYHG2NR9URAsaWAJ0U0+xb64cFFrTYg7GvRdT9Wza6qACeMRAl fPmy1hs2xm2aOqY/rWTKcoU= =lTeO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----