On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:28:35 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:39:29 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:20:39 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:55:49 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:25:28 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Was there a reason you chose reiser over say ext3 when you were
>>>>>> using F8?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a 1T, four drive, software RAID5 that's been corrupted more
>>>>> than once when I was running ext3 on it. Since I've moved to
>>>>> ReiserFS I haven't had any corruption despite several massive
>>>>> rebuilds.
>>>>>
>>>>> ReiserFS seems to have more overhead but appears to be much more
>>>>> robust than ext3.
>>>>
>>>> In most cases ReiserFS is much faster than ext3 and not too far
>>>> behind jfs and xfs.
>>>>
>>>> Due the low quality on HP laptops, I have tried a number of different
>>>> file systems, jfs and xfs did work so so, Reiser4 (rc1) was at least
>>>> at the time too slow, ext3 did almost worse than Reiser4, only
>>>> ReiserFS did recover without trouble and on a short time from the
>>>> troubles caused by the hardware caused crashes.
>>>
>>> Well I'll agree that ext3 is a little slow but I would have no fear
>>> pulling the plug on this pc and ruining the ext3 slice. It's happened
>>> several times in the past during power fluctuations until I went out
>>> and purchased a UPS for this pc and I've never had damage on a large
>>> scale.
>>
>> Was that a drive that multiple people write to at the same time?
>
> No but there wasn't any mention of multiple users writing simultaneously
> to the drive on J.O. Aho's crashing HP laptop.

Just wondering if it was the situation or the hardware that was causing
the corruption in my case.

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