[ale] Yes, you can hack up a reiser file system!

[Dow Hurst]

Normally reiserfs doesn't get screwed up.  You might want to watch that 
drive or your son's usage.  I've driven Reiserfs pretty hard and never 
had a buggered file system.  XFS is also like that.  It is ext2fs that 
normally gets all twisted by power shut offs.  Just my thought based on 
my experience so far.  My XFS experience is with SGIs so the code is not 
OS.  I've only used XFS on Linux with the OS version once.  I've used 
Reiserfs on pretty much every machine running Linux so it worries me you 
had to actually use the --check function.
Dow


BruceG wrote:
> I popped a machine in my 15 year old son's room a few weeks ago. Did the 
> "never shut it off by hitting the power switch" talk. Well, he couldn't start 
> it up yesterday, just hung in the middle of the boot sequence.
> 
> Booted off a Knoppix CD. Mounted the hard disk to look at it. Unmounted it and 
> did a "reiserfsck /dev/hda2 --check". Hmmm, return code of 2, seriously 
> hacked up file system. Did the "reiserfsck /dev/hda2 --rebuild-tree" and 
> crossed fingers. 
> 
> Back up and running. Phew!!! I've been doing backups on my main desktop, but 
> haven't yet set up backups on that machine. Think it's time to try Mondo on 
> Debian Testing. Just have to figure out NFS. Ouch. Think I'll back up his 
> desktop to the main desktop using NFS, and continue backing up the main 
> machine to tape.
> 
> So, moral of the story:
> Don't hit the power switch!!!
> Learn those file system test and repair commands (I leafed through a few pages 
> in two books to find relevant information)
> Figure out and DO those backups from each machine
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