file system corruption -

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Bob Raymond wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:53 pm, Bonez wrote:
> > This morning when I came in to work, I flipped on my monitor and found
> > scary file corruption messages, suggesting I enter the root password or hit
> > Ctrl-D to enter maintenance mode.
> >
> > I am trying to compile a new kernel to upgrade from 2.4.2 to 2.4.20. In
> > running 'make menuconfig' I included the option of compiling reiserfs and
> > other journaling file systems into the new kernel. At the point when I can
> > successfully get the kernel to compile and then to run, how do I as a
> > relative newbie, choose between the various journaling file systems? I am
> > leaning toward running XFS as it sounds most stable and reliable, but I am
> > unsure.
> >
> > Any enlightenment is appreciated.
> >
> > Scott
>
> OK, to do XFS you need an XFS patched kernel (see
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs)
>
> Then you have to make a partition for the filesystem, and I think you'd need
> xfsprogs for xfs, reiserfsprogs for ReiserFS (namesys.com I think).  Then you
> can copy files over, and you'll have a new filesystem.

See my SxS on migrating a live system to XFS.

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