On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, David Ford wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, please refresh my memory. I remembered this laptop being corrupted
by the elevator bug in 2.4.0-test2. Tony, did this hit your machine as
well?
-chris
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