hello from Adam,
As long as you understand that most if not all of these filesystem code is beta code with alpha code , then I respect your choice in using another style of filesystem.
However, not all code quality (Q) is the same. Use JFS , XFS and some of the others at your own risk. If you don't really know how good your hardware really is, how can you say it is a 'Reiser' problem. You cant.
Inspect your hardware first, check that all flashable products have the latest firmwire (bios, controller, hard drive, even the cd drive).
If you are also expecting the code to operate across diverse hardware, dont expect everything to operate as expected.
What can be done about it? We need a more comphrensive suite to test all aspects of the filesystem. The end result should be a score based on realibility and stability that a installer/end-user can make an informed choice on which filesystem.
I install Linux on laptops. Laptops and some hardware look and operate properly under FAT /NTFS but flake out on ReiserFS. The majority of my errors turn out to soft sectors in the superblock sectors.
These sectors are not in the same region of the diskpack, and until Linux users provide proper feedback back to hd manufacturers, these hd makers will only test the sensitive regions and leave the rest to filesystem code Q.
Adam (SuSE 10)
PS We also should demand an automated guru daemon that does background testing and use existing tech such as SMART to insure data is not currupted and does graceful recovery.
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From: Stan Glasoe
There are those who insist that Reiser is infallible and the problem is in your harddrives. I have had similar problems with my Reiser partitions on different machines doing flakey stuff and requiring the rebuild-tree thing to get right for awhile. My solution to the problem was to no longer use reiser. I've had Zero problems with drives since then. AND, no loss of data or hangs since.
Reiserfs may be perfect but I'm perfectly happy not using it anymore. The choice is yours. I'm out of the debate over whether Reiser is perfect or not. Richard
I'll second that. I switched to JFS and now XFS versus ext2/3 or Reiser due to the reliability issue. Whatever it is with my system, Reiser and ext2/3 were nothing but trouble. Simply switching to JFS and now XFS cured it. My free advice is _if_ you are experiencing lots of Reiser errors and must run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree often, try switching to XFS and see what happens. Stan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com