Re: Reiserfs Review
On Thu, 15 May 2003 19:33:48 +0200
Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no> wrote:
> Yep, that happened to me a few times too.
> Usually it'll be fixed if you run e2fsck manually; the reason for that is
> that the startup scripts use the --prune option, which will halt on any
> error requiring user input.
>
> Sometimes you need -f, but I've never had an ext2 FS get *destroyed*.
On one occasion fsck identified file fragments -- one of them was a piece of
the dpkg status file. The guru looking over my shoulder said, "This doesn't
look good" and suggested we start over (it was a new installation anyway).
The other two times there were so many errors (screen after screen after
screen, and I was still near the beginning of the partition) that it seemed
unlikely that many errors could be fixed properly, and I decided to
reinstall.
I ran Linux for years on several boxes without ever once having a filesystem
trashed. I wonder if the latest kernels have less stable ext2 than previous
ones.
Kevin
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