From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ge3vt-0000A0-B9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:14:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9T6BwYY000834; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:11:58 GMT Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.145]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9T69qif032607 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:09:54 GMT Received: from 203-59-216-240.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.216.240]) by customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony10.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 29 Oct 2006 14:09:51 +0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnoUAOLhQ0XLO9jwXWdsb2JhbACBTIQyhiws X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,368,1157299200"; d="scan'208"; a="9715409:sNHT128405610" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32CF645D58 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:09:49 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id maLd88lKbZuR for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:09:48 +0800 (WST) Received: from rattus (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A22645D45 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:09:48 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20061028202531.3597814c@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <200610281121.25785.nbensa@gmx.net> <20061028200239.64ed10cc@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200610281414.06330.menola@sbcglobal.net> <20061028202531.3597814c@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:09:47 +0800 Message-Id: <1162102188.20485.3.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9cde4378-3749-45fb-ba17-62e88ccd3c98 X-Archives-Hash: a48eb585635bd29b0f852e03101c69a6 On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > > > > > Unless you're using a laptop. > > > > Solar UPS? > > Battery! > actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mode doesnt detect when a battery runs out - so everything goes black! On one occasion I lost most of an ext3 file system, so I went back to reiserfs and no more problems. I have lost small areas of data with reiserfs (nothing recent though - very stable), but on ext3 Ive lost whole systems (desktops, and the laptop mentioned above). BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list