Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted
during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for
triggering the remote power OFF :)

Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and
reload was the only fix.  Cant remember the exact error - its been known
for awhile, but wasn't all that common  when i searched for it.

If they get a set of usable tools, especially online fsck I'd go back to
it as having a drive offline for hours whilst checking reiserfs isn't
great (though at least it doesnt happen often)

BillK



On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 17:13 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Is it reliable?
> 
> So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on
> /home and on an external drive i use for backup.
> 
> > A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of
> > unfixable errors.  Initially I was quite impressed,  but until the tools
> > catch up with real world problems I'll watch from the sidelines.  Errors
> > will happen, but fixing them is important too.
> 
> Which kernel was that with? Was the issue caused by a power loss or
> normal running? The lack of tools is why Fedora are sticking with ext4
> for 16.
>