[PLUG] trouble deleting files (Resolved)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at cesmail.net
Sat Dec 27 20:01:25 UTC 2008


Bill Barry wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> <znmeb at cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Bill Barry wrote:
>>>
>>> Then I ran
>>> fsck.reiserfs  --rebuild-tree  /dev/sdb2
>>>
>> Uh ... reiserfs? You were lucky it came back after the nine hours. It's
>> great when things work, but when they don't, it can be almost impossible
>> to recover.
>> --
>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P), WOM
>>
> 
> Well it could be that reiserfs is the culprit in the original
> corruption, but I have no evidence of this at the moment. I have been
> using it for many years without a problem. The overall situation is
> that my main filesystem is JFS and that I have a backup disk which
> uses Reiserfs. The backup is done using dirvish which creates a lot of
> hard links so my reasoning was that reiserfs would be more disk space
> efficient with a lot of really small files. Of course if reiserfs is
> the cause of the corruption my reasoning is a bit short sighted  and I
> will have to reconsider the disk size/ stability tradeoff.
> 
> Bill
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I had a reiserfs partition that died a painful death once. I had some
others that never gave me any trouble. I've never tried JFS. At the
moment, I use XFS, because it had the best characteristics on most
benchmarks. The only operation where it seems to be really slow is a
moderate-sized recursive "rm".

I'm waiting for ext4 and btrfs to stabilize; then I'll re-evaluate.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P), WOM

I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.



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