Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/6/2010 9:11 PM: > 1. Old installation using one of more reiserfs file systems. > 2. Install Lenny without wiping; use one or more reiserfs file systems. > 3. Worst-case scenario file system failure. > 4. (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) -> Links files from the old file system into > the new file system. > > If you are going to put reiserfs on a block device, it is not overly cautious > to erase the block device, to avoid (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) from > performing necromancy.
One more reason not to use ReiserFS. The fact it was created by a convicted murderer being the big one, obviously. Long before that, when Reiser was the hype, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I stuck with EXT2 until moving most things to XFS. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9337a2.4050...@hardwarefreak.com
