(OT) * Ferdinand Schmid wrote on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 21:31 -0700:
So far I only saw file Reiser file system corruption on a system with bad RAM.
Or bad IDE cable, controller problem, CPU heating problem, maybe because of a died fan, ... . Such things happen. Often surprinsingly.
You can't blame Reier for that. I have, however, always been very careful about the kernel that I am running with Reiser - there are certainly troublesome kernel versions out there as far a Reiser is concerned.
:-) What you tell sounds a little like: "it is not reliable out of the box - but there are chances to get it run for a while". :-)
I did recently suffer file system corruption on an ext3 partition (with data loss).
I think ext3 is much more tolerant e.g. for bit-flip-errors and such. I think that is important. Maybe on a future filesystem the redundancy level could be a tunable. Should be more efficient to do it on file system level; such as mirror the directory structure but not it's contents or such. But you are right, you cannot blame Reiser for that. But it is everyones personal decision if he believes that he never will get a memory or "partial" IDE cable failure or such in future in one of his servers. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.