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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem
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CapSel wrote:
> It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into
> /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem -
> disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable
> file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-sources or
> hardened-sources, if I compile for my arch or for i386... heavy load
> or just one rsync process, gentoo or slackware (I thought that I gave
> "bad" CFLAGS, USE...).
> ...it lacked support for SEcurity labels some time ago...
> But it is still fastest fs.
> Am I the only one who have this problem?
> So my question is - how can I help to eliminate this bug(s)?


I've used Linux for many years - the *only* times I have ever lost data 
has been due to reiserfs file corruption.... and both times I had / and 
/usr mounted as reiserfs, so I'd recommend avoiding it on these two 
filesystems anyway!

I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid (I 
prefer xfs but that just my personal opinion).

Cheers

Mark
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