Re: [Devel] Server migration status: DANGEROUS HAZARD !!

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, David Turner wrote:

>Hello,
>
>  SHIT HAPPENS !! While I were about to complete the server migration,
>  a particularly nasty ReiserFS bug hit the new server and caused a
>  complete stall yesterday..
>
>  It's hard to know the cause of the problem (faulty hard-drive or
>  ReiserFS bug), but the new machine is still currently running until
>  we copy all sites and services on it to a new hard drive (this takes
>  time since it seems that some backups have been corrupted too address@hidden)
>
>  so, please don't use the CVS or mailing list until you receive a
>  confirmation message from me. I'm really sorry, but expect some
>  server and mailing list problems in the next hours, or even days..
>
>  By the way, if anyone knows about a _reliable_ way to recover from
>  a bad ReiserFs partition, we _are_ interested !!
>
>Regards,
>
>- David

Ouch.  I can't help out with Reiserfs recovery...  Alternatively
though, once you're back up and running, you might want to
consider using ext3 for journalling.  ext3 filesystems are ext2, 
so you have the legacy of ext2 recovery tools at your disposal in 
the unlikely case of trouble.

I'd be glad to offer help setting up ext3 if need be.  It's 
pretty simple, and you can have ext3 fall back to ext2 should 
you need to mount without journalling.

Good luck with your recovery.

Take care,
TTYL

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