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Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3
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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> > You're not getting data loss, but access denied, when hitting
> > incompatibilities, and it looks like it hits 2.2 hard while 2.4 is less
> > of a problem. Please search the reiserfs list archives for details.
> > vs-13048 is a good search term, I believe.
>
> Data is lost:
>
> Root can't access the files.
> Reiserfsck can't repair the files.
> The files that are corrupted are unrelated to the ones exported over NFS
> (which makes me wonder if it's the same bug).
>
> File corruption would begin a couple of hours after the volume was
> formatted, and become catastrophic within a couple of days.
>
> Until the fix is merged I'm not going within 100 miles of reiserfs!
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum
> tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only
> 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1\2 tons.
> -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
>
> tmh@magenta-netlogic.com
>
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there is a patch, it is on our website, what is the problem?