Re: reiserfs on all my SRM-alpha drives: how I did it

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> There could be some reasons.  Like the fact that reiserfs was _designed_
> to journal only metadata.  Translated into less technical terms this
> means that after an unclean shutdown your file system should survive,
> and after a journal reply should be clean, but there are no guarantees
> whatsoever what will be in these files.  A number of people found
> out to their dismay that this is not only a theorethical possibility.

Yes, I saw a few horror stories.  Luckily, this isn't really a production
system, just a home machine that happens to have a partial mirror on
it, so if it dies, I'm not worried.  But, the partition's contents only
change once per day and it sure beats a 20 min. fsck :-)

My root partition and the others that hold system data on them are still
ext2.

C