Once upon a time nate said... > > drawbacks to reiserfs: > - it does not handle bad blocks, so if your disks are of questionable > quality you may have trouble if they start mapping bad blocks in the area > where data is stored.
This is also a drawback to XFS - I think. I'm guessing that my harddrive mapped a new block to cover for a bad block (since I was getting bad blocks), and while XFS did not cause a panic, processes would get stuck after entering a particular directory on the filesystem. The man page for fsck.xfs says: NAME fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]