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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by feld on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:25PM (#8682706)
reiserfsck used to be a game of russian roulette -- it either sort-of works and you can mount your filesystem, or it eats all your data.

I can't say I'd trust my data on it these days.

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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by lmm on Monday December 01, 2014 @02:13PM (#8683017)
It's a gamble sure. But if you get into the same situation with XFS or btrfs there's no gamble, just guaranteed data loss.
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Re:Nasty Lockup Issue Still Being Investigated for Linux 3.18 by feld on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:38PM (#8688422)
XFS is not as bad as it once was, but I don't use either of those anyway.
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