Re: [Sheflug] mandrake7.2

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> However, a fauly HDD (bad blocks, now in the bin) caused a few
> problems. The writes caused some data loss. So, I rebooted to the rescue
> disk, and ran the check program, with instruction to rebuild from the
> transaction log. This took about 10 minutes, and all I lost was 10 lines
> from a document I was writing. It even recreated the destroyed file. This
> was about three months ago, so it was early days. A good sign!

:-)  Not that early...  reiserfs has been in the works for ages (I
remember looking it up well over a year ago); they just knew that there
was no point submitting it for inclusion into a mainstream kernel tree
until they couldn't make it do hideous things any more.

Cheers

R

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