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reiserfs gets easily corrupted?

After two power outages the reiserfs on my sister’s PC got corrupted. And I mean it. Not even --rebuild-tree saved us (well, it said it could be then it would never reboot again crashing while trying to mount root filesystem).

So back to ext3 that seems less prune to this kind of stuff. At least in several years of GNU/Linux usage I’ve never had my filesystem corrupted (ext2 and ext3).


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  1. Sqeaky
    Published at October 31st, 2006 at 9:32 am

    I thought stuff like this was old news. Reiser3/4 and XFS corrupt when not handled gingerly, but on the upside it manages blocks beter and may net more usable space, you just shouldn’t use it unless the machine has a battery or UPS.

    All filesystems that store data in memory instead of flushing run this risk. it is even possible in EXT3 if you power off at just the right moment, but it is far less likely, and will probably not damage the whole filesystem unless a rather unlucky series of super-block modifications happens in perfect coordination with a power outage.

    I feel for you though, I hope you didn’t lose anything important. ;)

  2. mlopes
    Published at October 31st, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    Sqeaky,

    Fortunately my /home partition is in ext3 ;-) Just took a couple of minutes to reinstall the system plus another couple to do the updates. But it is quite boresome. I’ve learned my lesson!