Re: ReiserFS patch for 2.4.0-test2

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 14:24:38 EST


Chris Mason wrote:

> > Remember that the reiserfs patches for 2.4.x are only experimental and are unreliable
> > according to the readme that comes with them. Also reiserfsck is not finished yet for
> > this version (a sore point with me as it has already corrupted a couple of directories...)
> >
>
> Ummm, it isn't supposed to corrupt directories. Could you give some
> details on how it happened?

Some form of unexpected shutdown such as power failure. My laptop had this issue. I
eventually had to copy the data I had and reformat the drive because I was collecting more and
more bad areas. Untarring the kernel, cvs checkout of X, etc, etc. I was left with a growing
number of undeletable trashed directories.

-d

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