* on the Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Andrew Sharp was blubbering: > If you find yourself in a situation where the normal recovery mechanisms > of reiserfs don't work, the file system is most likely so fubared that > reiserfsck won't be able to do much. But it might.
I've got plenty of experience with that, having had a defect RAM which trashed the filesystem. That's precisely the point where reiserfs can't grant the integrity of the filesystem. Actually, no filesystem can. And that's where you need an fsck. >From those 10 or 20 times I ran reiserfsck on a corrupt filesystem, it was always able to fix it. I had once the problem that it segfaulted, and the disk was inaccessible for some days, but with a newer version even that could be fixed. Peter -- "Any good Unix security engineer can clean up any Unix box. But I'm not sure there are people even within Microsoft who know how to clean up an NT box." -- Michael Zbouray
