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

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 7/24/06, Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> 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.

I only wonder since I've _never_ had data loss with XFS while I
managed to destroy around 40% of data by shutting down power to
ReiserFS :-)


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Paul Lasek