Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:08:52 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel |
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Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Briggs wrote: > > >>I use Reiser3 and Reiser4 on all my systems and fsck has always worked >>even if it has been much slower than I would like. The only problems >>I've experienced have been on the same level as when an ext2/3 >>filesystem fsck dumps several directories of unlabeled files into lost >>+found. >> >> > >You've obviously never kept several dozen reiserfs filesystem images >(for use with Xen or User-Mode Linux) on a reiserfs filesystem, and >then had a hardware failure bad enough that the fsck had to try to >rebuild the b-tree, I take it? > > That is fixed in V4. Until people start to use V4 they should compress their V3 backup images that they store on V3, or store them on separate partitions. I regret that fixing it without a disk format change was not possible.
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