> Don't however think you can safely
> test an fs on a production box just on one partition and be safe. You can
> be _safer_ but you should be prepared to cover the worst.
>
>
The funny thing is that in all my years of hacking on reiserfs, neither I nor
anyone else on my team has ever corrupted any ext2 partitions as a result of the
many bugs in not yet debugged test versions of reiserfs. I thought that surely
I would have to worry about this, but no.... I learned by experience not theory
that it just doesn't happen, and not to worry about it. Maybe other
FS developers have had a different experience. That said, a buggy reiserfs
surely can crash the machine, and so yes, you should not use an unstable
reiserfs release on a mission critical machine. We'll have something stable in
a few days I hope.
Hans
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