On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:39:20AM -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > My first move _before_ running any fsck on ReiserFS is to do > a full dd of the slice. Why? Because 9 times out of 10, I'm > going to lose the filesystem when I run reiser.fsck. How current is this experience? I hear from proponents that reiser admittedly had problems in early days but they've cleaned up their act. > The problem with XFS is the lack of support by the distro > vendors. I don't trust the stock kernel XFS implementation, > and I don't trust vendors to include the proper user-space > support. Can you elaborate? I thought that 2.6 kernels had merged the mainline XFS stuff. I can't find any discussion of problems on the XFS web site and the "xfs/download/latest" area on oss.sgi.com has files dated 2003. thanks danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile