Niall O Broin wrote:
> I'm one of the people Liam knows who were running Reiser. One of my crashes
> was a 15GB FS on my notebook turned into total shite. Even doing
>> dd if=fucked_reiser_fs |strings|less
>> produced nothing recognisable.
Did you expect it to? I just ran this on a reiserfs filesystem, and
it produced garbage as well. The filesystem is perfectly fine!
> Feel free to trust a total rewrite of the Reiser code with YOUR data. I won't
> be trusting any more of mine, or my customers', to it.
Fair enough. I doubt anyone will be using reiserfs v4 on production
systems for a fair while anyway.
This whole argument is pretty silly. Some people have had good
experiences with reiserfs, some have had bad. Find me a filesystem
(especially one in active development) that has never resulted in a
horror story for some poor soul.
Nick
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