ReiserFS corrupted my Gentoo =(

Lowspirit · Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2002 12:32 am Post subject: ReiserFS corrupted my Gentoo =(

Always thirsting for more performance and hearing all the latest "reiserfs is rock solid" talk I decided to change my root partition to reiserfs from ext3. The transfer went smooth and the first couple of boots and usage was pure heaven, I did notice a difference, first startup of Mozilla under X was almost 30% faster then before, and things overall felt smoother.

But then one sad boot it decided to act up, first I noticed modules.conf was a crapped up, restored from backup, rebooted, no errors on bootup but X refused to start, it just froze and rebooted.

In the end, a reiserfschk did a check, did a rebuild-tree (it told me that was only solution), and I rebooted into a broken Gentoo =(

Is this user fault? I would really like to use reiserfs cause of it's speed, but I refuse to reinstall Gentoo another time (after the one I'll have to do tomorrow) because of filesystem corruption, I've slowly switched over all my Windows work to Linux, what a misstake that was, thank god for backups.

Lowspirit = :cry:

haylocki · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 6:47 am Post subject:

Hi, I used to use Reiserfs myself, and it was Rock solid.

Recently I upgraded my motherboard and processor

Soltek SL75DRV5 & Duron 1100 MHz

Since then whenever I rebooted my PC the filesystem was corrupt

I have since reverted to using EXT3 and the system works fine.

I suggest you try another filesystem, and see if your file corruption stops.

Ian

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

I use reiserfs here (gentoo-1.4rc1) for about 1 week without probs. Faster than ext3, more supported than XFS. However, our main servers (slackware-8.0) at work have both reiserfs and operate 24/7/365 for about 2 years now without a single hitch. So I'd suggest that u better also check your hardware and remove the notail option from /etc/fstab.

.:: zen ::.

ronmon · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

All of the Linux partitions on my desktop machine have been reiserfs for the last 18 months or so, running Gentoo since last May and Slackware before that. Aside from the scare during the mid-2.4.x kernels (from which I escaped unscathed), I have had no file corruption or other problems even with lots of improper shutdowns. We have lots of power outages where I live and journaling is essential to system health.

When I picked up a new laptop last month, I decided to use the supposedly "stable" xfs for my Gentoo partitions and have since had to delete and rebuild my /usr/portage and am having some trouble with /etc. Despite what I've read on this subject, my personal experience says that reiser is very reliable. The lappy will likely get wiped soon and a fresh Gentoo install done on a known-good (to me) file system.

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Before everyone posts more "hey, I've been running an unstable filesystem for x amount of time, it has to be your hardware" replies, I have to say that I had it corrupt my filesystem on 3 different machines at 3 different occasions. It's definately not a hardware problem, nor is it a user issue.

Lowspirit · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 6:41 pm Post subject:

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Malakin · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 9:18 pm Post subject:

I've used Reiser on two machines since it first made it into the kernel, never had a problem with it. I would think that by now especially it would be quite stable having been in the kernel for so long.

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I've been using reiserfs on two maxtor ata 133 drives (RAID 0) and put it through some hardcore torture testing (burning cdr's at 12x speed while encoding videos, running p2p apps and opening three instances of emerge), so far I have seen absolutely no problem. The other day I even switched off the power button during disk-intensive operations, again to (thank god) no negative effect.

I did have minor prob's with earlier versions of reiserfs (2.4.8 kernel) but I've upgraded my hardware since then. Reiserfs does seem to perform well on newer, faster drives.