On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 12:18, Craig Dickson wrote: > Adam Warner wrote: > > > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything > > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm > > probably going to have to wait until reiserfsck is improved. > > Which sounds to me like a superb argument against using reiserfs... > the tools just aren't mature yet.
I've just run reisferfsck 3.x.0k-pre10 (latest pre-release version available) on all my reiserfs partitions. My home partition had zero corruptions. That's impressive for solid use over many months. I compiled a static version of reiserfsck to run from floppy (it links to libc6 otherwise). I then checked my root partition. Running --check I was told there were 3210 corruptions which can be fixed with --fix-fixable. That might sound bad but they appeared to be mainly due to an obsolete format that needed upgrading. Running --fix-fixable indeed fixed everything. It's impressive that reiserfsck was able to diagnose what switch should solve any errors. A lengthy -rebuild-tree was not even necessary. So the reiserfs tools are progressing well. Regards, Adam
