On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:
> we all have different usage patterns and different needs. I find it
> extremely convenient to not be using ext2 when my dell laptop with its
> poor linux power management crashes frequently, or the kernel crashes.
> I have never had any problem with data corruption. Many users I know
> have also had good experiences with leaving behind ext2 and going to
> reiserfs on their laptops. For your needs and patterns though, it
> sounds like you need ext3.
The point is, this can happen every time the kernel crashes, and reiserfs
wrote something to it's metadata logs (or so I gather from your and Alan's
explanation). And apart from my source files getting randomly distributed,
reiserfs works like a charm (I have a Dell as well, and it used to crash a
lot, which was the main reason for me to switch to reiserfs in the first
place), is fast, and stable. I like it a lot, but not on a machine where I
do my development on, nor a machine without a UPS. It just doesn't help
not knowing if/when a file gets corrupted/wrongly distributed/written
back/whatever.
It looks to me (with all my ignorance) that reiserfs shuffles it's blocks
a lot when writing back, and that bites when something interrupts it.
I can't back that up with code, put my finger to it or anything else, but
that's my take on my problems.
Bas Vermeulen
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