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Re: reiserfs installation



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:23:07PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > not true, when (and i say when) the kernel corrupts the filesystem you
> > WILL need to fsck it, 
> 
> There is no fsck for reiserfs; or, it's not recommended, to be exact.

there is one, its just so broken its hardly worth bothering with.  

> BTW, one might wonder why the kernel corrupts the filesystem. If it's
> due to the bugs on the kernel, then I guess it's not the fault of
> reiserfs.

there are other ways besides kernel bugs that a filesystem can become
corrupted.  the idea that journalling == no fsck is a myth.  pure and
simple. 

> >and unfortuantly reiserfsck sucks.
> 
> In what way...?

see debian-user archives.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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