[Cialug] Linux Tweaks and Hacks

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

"Edit the file system with a Hex editor"

Hmmm... someone give that man a t-shirt!

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:45, Renegade Muskrat wrote:
> How easy is it to manually repair reiser? Are there many disaster 
> recovery utilities? For now i've been sticking with ext3 simply because 
> it is so similar to ext2. And with ext2, in certain situations i've had 
> to edit the file system with a hex editor. I've had to do this in rare 
> situations such as when *someone* <ahem> accidentally deleted an entire 
> web site for which there was no backup. Editing the file system with a 
> hex editor isn't fun, but there are tutorials written for ext2 which 
> are quite helpful and can walk one through the process of restoring 
> directories and then files. Do reiser and other systems work similarly 
> enough that the same techniques for disaster recover could work? 
> Perhaps it wouldn't be as big a deal for me today; now my machines both 
> at home and at work are backed up to a file server on a daily basis.
> 
>  >At 10:50 AM 11/11/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>  >
>  >As for file system benchmarks a quick search on Google brings up
>  >http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html.  Of course, this is from the
>  >maker of ReiserFS so take it with a bit of salt.  The full Google 
> return
>  >can be found
>  >http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&q=file+system+benchmarks&btnG=Goog
>  >le+Search
>  >
>  >Personally I use reiserfs for all my systems.
>  >
>  >Here is another set of benchmarks which put JFS on top with Reiserfs
>  >second. http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html
>  >
>  >Regardless, either is better than the old ext3.
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