Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 12:18, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> 
> > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything
> > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm
> > probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved.
> 
> Which sounds to me like a superb argument against using reiserfs...
> the tools just aren't mature yet.

I've just run reisferfsck 3.x.0k-pre10 (latest pre-release version
available) on all my reiserfs partitions. My home partition had zero
corruptions. That's impressive for solid use over many months.

I compiled a static version of reiserfsck to run from floppy (it links
to libc6 otherwise). I then checked my root partition. Running --check I
was told there were 3210 corruptions which can be fixed with
--fix-fixable. That might sound bad but they appeared to be mainly due
to an obsolete format that needed upgrading. Running --fix-fixable
indeed fixed everything.

It's impressive that reiserfsck was able to diagnose what switch should
solve any errors. A lengthy -rebuild-tree was not even necessary.

So the reiserfs tools are progressing well.

Regards,
Adam