At Wed, 28 Apr 2004 it looks like Thomas Zehetbauer composed: > I am using ReiserFS for years now and the only near data loss situation > I have experienced was my lilo.message file becoming unreadable due to a > bug in the new unpack tail ioctl(). But even then Hans' team provided me > with excellent support and I regained access to this file using the 2.3 > linux development kernel where that bug had already been fixed. > > I would however never trust my important data to any file system nor any > disk drive without having a backup. Additionally you should not blame > the file system for your broken hardware especially when your disk drive > lies about data having been written when it is lost from the write back > cache on power failure. In my first experience working with MySQL, we were recommended to format that particular partition to Reiser for performance reasons. That's just my initial experience and I had to setup four servers so far, will keep you posted... -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 San Francisco CA 94121 http://billschoolcraft.com
