file system corruption -

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, 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.

Prolly had a power outage overnight, and fsck failed on the reboot?

> 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.

Well, i'm a big fan of XFS.  Others will brag about ext3.  I've not heard
many advocates of ReiserFS or JFS on this list, but they are considered to
be fairly stable too.

BTW, there's really no point in compiling support for both ReiserFS &
other journaling FS into the kernel simultaneously, unless you need the
support for more than one simlutaneously.  Otherwise you're just going to
end up with a huge bloated kernel with functionality that you don't need.

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