[Cialug] Corruption with ReiserFS

[chris129 at cs.iastate.edu]

I don't know.  I've never trusted reiser with anything more than my OS files. 
Personal files always go on the good old standby:  ext3.

Quoting Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org>:

> Have any of you had problems with the ReiserFS on Linux?  I had a 
> situation with a different SUSE Box which used ReiserFS where it 
> crashed not too long ago and asked me to check the files and it said it 
> had to do a major re-check and then I finally managed to get it to do 
> that check and it seemed to find all my files.  I felt relieved. I 
> didn't need to access them right away, so I left them alone.  Then 
> recently I went to use the files and they were all corrupted, but the 
> filenames were there.
> 
> Is that common for ReiserFS? I am probably going to scavenge what I can 
> of what is left and then reformat the system and reinstall. I am 
> wondering if I am better off with a different FS?  What do you all 
> recommend?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
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