Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

[Matthias Andree]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> ls can't access the files either, so I don't see how that could rectify 
> anything.  The entire directory becomes inaccessible.   This happened to 
> /lib once.  Nasty.

No-one can access the files once the caches are hosed. Purge the
inode/dentry caches and retry.

> I'd like to be able to use something like reiserfs, especially when 
> developing (it reduces boot time a lot).  However to call it 'stable' on 
> 2.4.4 is simply wrong.  If/when the nfs fix gets merged and tested 
> *then* it stands a chance of being called stable.

Does that actually apply to 2.4.4 or rather to 2.2.19?
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