On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 03:03, Jean-Francois Landry wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:03:21PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Okay, here goes (again): > > > > > I'd just like to add that I've been running most of my (x86) box on > > > Reiserfs for over a year now, and I've yet to see it even hiccup. > > > YMMV. > > > > Indeed, I didn't see a hiccup either for a few months until it decided > > to lose all data on one partition from one second to the other. > > Fortunately, none of that data was really important. I considered it a > > warning to switch my work machine to something else. > > > > AFAIK people have reported similar failures on i386 on l-k or elsewhere. > > Hence my conclusion that it's probably not a PPC specific problem. > > Sure it wasn't the drive? The controller?
Nope, they're both still working fine, both in Linux with ext3 and in MockOS. > Cosmic rays flipping bits in your (non-ECC) RAM? Not impossible I guess, but even then a filesystem shouldn't alter meta-data on disk such that it doesn't find any files anymore, should it? > Oh, you do stick with your regular backup schedule, do you? This is > computing after all :) The internet is my backup. ;) Of course I make backups of my really important data, but that's not the point - backups are for recovery of bad crashes or disk failures, not for the filesystem crapping out in the middle of normal operation. That's simply unacceptable. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
