Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:25:05 +1100, Grant did catÂ*:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:58:27 -0600, No_One wrote:
>
>>On 2008-02-12, Res wrote:
>>>
>>> It is well documented that after hard crashes, reiser (like xfs/jfs)
>>> can end up leaving you with zero byte files, you have to weigh up the
>>> fantastic
>>
>>Ain't that the truth!!!!
>>
>>> speed of reiser against the awfull slowness of ext2 and ext3, I use
>>> reiser only for mail dirs and on backup servers, never use reiser for
>>> system partitions, never use it for critical things like databases,
>>> but for general /home, /tmp etc its acceptable, (I do use it on my
>>> rsync servers though for storage disks (not OS) as it makes backing up
>>> a mail server go from an hour on ext2/3 to 20 odd minutes on reiser.
>>
>>I regret the day I installed reiser..I have two 0 byte mysql databases.
>>
>>I'd run the reiser fsck to fix, but I've heard horror stories about that
>>process.
>>
>>The only good thing about the reiserfs is that I'm anal about backups
>>and backups of my backups.
>
> I've been running reiserfs for years without issue, observed reiserfs
> recovers from unexpected power fails by running a journal replay on
> mount.
>
> YMMV?

I used to say the same until last evening :-)
Some race condition in loop/isomount of an iso on
a reiserfs partition also loop mounted, got I/O stuck and
the CPU went amok and the fan was spreading monkeys all over
the walls thus I tried to play smart and b0rked it all:
I rmmod the loop and loop_serpent to be able to kill the
thunar which was I/O pumping and while the rmmod -f eventually
succeeded the zombie still wouldn't die, I tried a reboot but
still no way and then zillion log mess printed about access error on
the partition so I finally powered-off the poor soul.
After the reboot the reiserfs partition was wrecked, no table and
no journal, the reconstruct phases gave out only zeroes in the tables
and though I could see there actually was data in some places of the
partition I didn't feel much like trying and repair by hand 50/100G
of reiserfs/twofish bubbles.

Now I've lost a movie copy, a few audio files I was working on,
and a pack of unfinished DLs, and some precious data I also had
on a backup plate, hence no big deal.

I also have one reiserfs partion less and one new JFS :-)