On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:39:59PM -0800, Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> With this I agree, but before you start thinking that Windows is the
> only OS that qualifies, consider this: I've run the "pull the plug"
> test under early Linux 2.4 kernels running with ReiserFS. I'd start a
> make of a large project, pull the power, bring the system back up, and
> restart the build. And the end result was that some of the files
> files in the build directory were corrupted, such that the build could
> not continue.
Afaik, ReiserFS does not guarantee data consistency, only meta
data. As in, the file system itself will be consistent, and an
fsck shouldn't find a problem.
Kurt
