[NTLUG:Discuss] ext2 vs. ext3 vs. reiserfs

[Greg Edwards]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> 
> What would cause you to lose your file systems like that simply by
> switching to reiserfs?  Keep in mind, all my experience is with est3 and
> have never run reiserfs.
> 
> Wayne

Couple different events caused the loss of the FS.  Once I turned on 
gated with a wrong parameter and by the time I killed it the superblock 
was toast.  When I ran fsck (reiserfs flavour) it asked about fixing 
invalid nodes and like a dummy I said yes :(  After an hour I figured I 
was in trouble, and I was right.  fsck couldn't figure out was FS was on 
disk after that.

Another time it did the same basic thing after a system shutdown, not 
even a crash.  When I restarted the system the init sequence said the 
disk was an ext2 FS (linux native).  I lost that one as well.

I can't remember what the 3rd cause was, but 3 strikes and it was 
history on ALL of my systems.

The only time I've lost an ext2 FS is after a hard crash.  I run UPSes 
and rarely shutdown so ext2 is fine under normal use.  It'll be a long 
time before I trust a critical system to a new FS again.

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