recommending reiserfs?

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Kelsoe [mailto:randykel at swbell.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 10:00 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: recommending reiserfs?
> 
> 
> John Thompson wrote:
> 
> >>You should never run fsck on an XFS filesystem. XFS has xfs_repair, 
> >>which will try and repair corruption.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Running fsck on an xfs filesystem shouldn't cause any problems.  fsck
> >will simply call fsck.xfs, which is functionally identical 
> to the "true"
> >program (ie, "do nothing, successfully").  See "man fsck.xfs" for
> >details.
> >
> >:-)
> >
> So what's the point? According to the original poster (Ow), 
> he ran fsck 
> and it deleted a directory. It sounds like it DID do something; 
> something negative. If you have a problem with an XFS filesys, the 
> correct tool is xfs_repair. There is also xfs_check, which 
> only checks 
> for problems, and takes longer than xfs_repair, which fixes the 
> problem.  ;-)


Sorry.. Sorry.. to cause such confusion. I used xf_repair.. 
(man xfs and i got that)

So.. I should have tried xfs_check instead ah.. Okay.. now I know.
Fortunately, it wasn't anything I couldn't get back. It was just the
GKrellm programmer's manual. Something I can re-DL again.