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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:29:03 -0800
From: "Joshua Schmidlkofer" <joshland@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem
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On 10/29/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:56, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> > On 10/28/06, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > > >> 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).
> > > >
> > > > if you use XFS don't use 2.6.17 kernels.
> > > > ...
> >
> > 2.6.17.8 and up work fine.
>
> and up to 2.6.17.5 it eats your data...
That's not true. Up to 2.6.17.5 it /may/ eat your data. I ran
2.6.17, in the buggy state, for >2 weeks before I upgraded. It did
_not_ eat my data. Don't get me wrong - it was lucky, and yes - it's
a heinous bug. If it just _ate_ your data, more people would have
lost data and or filesystems.
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