Re: [9fans] Plan9 installation invading the other partitions?

[Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:51:44PM +0200, Lluís Batlle wrote:
> 2006/7/21, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>:
> >I wouldn't blame Plan 9 for damaging another partition it shouldn't
> >even touch. I'd blame ReiserFS. I heard several stories from friends
> >and collegues who used ReiserFS about file system corruption. You
> >might want to use your favorite search engine, but from my point of
> >view ReiserFS isn't stable enough for everydays use.
> >The alternatives are either called ext3 or jfs, I suppose. XFS is
> >nice, too, but it tends to corrupt the file system in case of a
> >sudden system crash (e.g. after power fail), especially on heavy
> >loaded file systems.
> Yes, I heard that also about ReiserFS. But practically, I've lost
> files using ext3 (I used it for some months). Too many, so I stopped
> using it. I've never lost files using ReiserFS (since years of usage)
> until this week - and only two tmp files were lost. About XFS, which I
> used for a year or so, had namely the problem of sudden system crash.
> The filesystem didn't get corrupted, but simply some files (mostly
> important ones) were blank after reboot.

I've taken damage on reiserfs and found out that there wasn't really
much anything in a way of recovery tools or diagnostics. About
everything anything managed to say that the fs is dead. XFS is still the
only system that I've had nearly guaranteed data loss (and not much sign
of when or where until you find the blank files) if anything goes wrong
with a fs in use. Never on Irix, though. There it always worked
flawlessly despite equal randomness in power status and hardware faults
etc.
At the moment (well, that means the last few years; installations aren't
that frequent) I'm sticking to ext3 on any Linux hosts I may be looking
after.

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